Immune Therapy and β-Cell Death in Type 1 Diabetes

نویسندگان

  • Jasmin Lebastchi
  • Songyan Deng
  • Amir H. Lebastchi
  • Isabel Beshar
  • Stephen Gitelman
  • Steven Willi
  • Peter Gottlieb
  • Eitan M. Akirav
  • Jeffrey A. Bluestone
  • Kevan C. Herold
چکیده

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from immune-mediated destruction of insulin-producing β-cells. The killing of β-cells is not currently measurable; β-cell functional studies routinely used are affected by environmental factors such as glucose and cannot distinguish death from dysfunction. Moreover, it is not known whether immune therapies affect killing. We developed an assay to identify β-cell death by measuring relative levels of unmethylated INS DNA in serum and used it to measure β-cell death in a clinical trial of teplizumab. We studied 43 patients with recent-onset T1D, 13 nondiabetic subjects, and 37 patients with T1D treated with FcR nonbinding anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (teplizumab) or placebo. Patients with recent-onset T1D had higher rates of β-cell death versus nondiabetic control subjects, but patients with long-standing T1D had lower levels. When patients with recent-onset T1D were treated with teplizumab, β-cell function was preserved (P < 0.05) and the rates of β-cell were reduced significantly (P < 0.05). We conclude that there are higher rates of β-cell death in patients with recent-onset T1D compared with nondiabetic subjects. Improvement in C-peptide responses with immune intervention is associated with decreased β-cell death.

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دوره 62  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013