PMID- 12392851 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030411 LR - 20190906 IS - 0198-8859 (Print) IS - 0198-8859 (Linking) VI - 63 IP - 11 DP - 2002 Nov TI - Modulation of insulitis and type 1 diabetes by transgenic HLA-DR3 and DQ8 in NOD mice lacking endogenous MHC class II. PG - 987-99 AB - To evaluate the contributions of DR3 and DQ8 to the etiopathogenesis of type 1 diabetes in a diabetes-predisposing milieu, we developed human leukocyte antigen (HLA) transgenic mice on the nonobese diabetic (NOD) background in the absence of the endogenous class II molecule, I-A(g7) and studied the incidence of both spontaneous and experimental (induced) autoimmune diabetes. Transgenic expression of HLA-DR3 and -DQ8 (either alone or in combination) did not confer susceptibility to spontaneous or cyclophosphamide-induced type 1 diabetes. Expression of I-A(g7) was mandatory for development of spontaneous or cyclophosphamide-induced diabetes. However, multiple low doses of streptozotocin could induce diabetes in all groups of mice independent of the class II molecules expressed. In unmanipulated mice, only islets from I-A(g7+/+) mice revealed significant intra-islet infiltration. Although a characteristic peri-insulitis/peri-ductulitis was present in Abeta(0)/NOD mice, islets from DR3, DQ8 and DR3 x DQ8 double transgenic mice demonstrated significantly less infiltration. In conclusion, transgenic expression of HLA-DR3 and -DQ8 associated with predisposition to type 1 diabetes alone is not sufficient to induce spontaneous diabetes in NOD mice lacking endogenous class II molecules. FAU - Kudva, Yogish C AU - Kudva YC AD - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. FAU - Rajagopalan, Govindarajan AU - Rajagopalan G FAU - Raju, Raghavan AU - Raju R FAU - Abraham, Roshini S AU - Abraham RS FAU - Smart, Michelle AU - Smart M FAU - Hanson, Julie AU - Hanson J FAU - David, Chella S AU - David CS LA - eng GR - AI-14764/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Hum Immunol JT - Human immunology JID - 8010936 RN - 0 (CD4 Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ8 antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DR3 Antigen) RN - 0 (Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta) RN - 5W494URQ81 (Streptozocin) RN - 8N3DW7272P (Cyclophosphamide) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - CD4 Antigens/physiology MH - Cyclophosphamide/pharmacology MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/*etiology/immunology/pathology MH - Female MH - Glucose Tolerance Test MH - HLA-DQ Antigens/*physiology MH - HLA-DR3 Antigen/*physiology MH - Inflammation/etiology MH - Islets of Langerhans/*pathology MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred NOD MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis MH - Salivary Glands/pathology MH - Streptozocin MH - T-Lymphocytes/physiology EDAT- 2002/10/24 04:00 MHDA- 2003/04/12 05:00 CRDT- 2002/10/24 04:00 PHST- 2002/10/24 04:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/04/12 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/10/24 04:00 [entrez] AID - S0198885902004354 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00435-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hum Immunol. 2002 Nov;63(11):987-99. doi: 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00435-4.