LEILI YAZDCHI -MARANDI

From the *Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran,and the **Departments of Immunology and Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[ 1 ] - INDUCTION OF TYPE 1 DIABETES IN DIABETES-RESISTA NT (BB-DR) RATS

The BioBreeding- Diabetes Prone (BB-DP) rat spontaneously develops an autoimmune diabetic syndrome that is dependent on the RT1 u Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) haplotype and homozygosity for an allele at the Lymphopenia (Lyp) locus. Lyp mutation is responsible for a peripheral T -lymphopenia. There are other genetic loci contributing to diabetes susceptibility in this strain. BB ra...

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