Passive transfer of diabetes in the BB/W rat

Science. 1983 May 13;220(4598):727-8. doi: 10.1126/science.6836309.

Abstract

Severe diabetes with insulitis was produced in young diabetes-prone BB/W rats by passive transfer of concanavalin A-treated spleen cells from BB/W animals with acute diabetes. Spleen cells alone or in combination with lymph node cells were active in transferring disease.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Concanavalin A / pharmacology
  • Diabetes Mellitus / etiology
  • Diabetes Mellitus / immunology*
  • Hyperglycemia / etiology
  • Hyperglycemia / immunology
  • Immunity, Cellular
  • Mice
  • Mice, Nude
  • Rats
  • Spleen / cytology
  • Spleen / drug effects
  • Spleen / transplantation
  • Transplantation, Heterologous
  • Transplantation, Homologous

Substances

  • Concanavalin A