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Sensory neurons link the nervous system and autoimmune diabetes.

Bour-Jordan H, Bluestone JA

UCSF Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0540, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

The initial factors that trigger the autoimmune response against pancreatic islets in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse are still unknown. In this issue of Cell, propose that a defect in a subset of sensory neurons innervating the pancreas plays a major role in initiating the chain of events that will lead to local inflammation, islet destruction, and autoimmune diabetes.

Published 18 December 2006 in Cell, 127(6): 1097-9.
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