71. (Journal Article): Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as an autoimmune disease.

Bach JF
 
ABSTRACT: IDDM is unquestionably an autoimmune disease, as reflected by the presence of beta-cell-reactive autoantibodies and T cells, T cell-mediated transfer of the disease in nondiabetic ...

72. (Journal Article): Effect of metabolic acidosis on the growth hormone/IGF endocrine axis in skeletal growth centers.

Green J, Maor G
 
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Chronic metabolic acidosis (CMA) adversely affects bone metabolism and skeletal growth. Given the cardinal role played by the local growth hormone (GH)/insulin-like gro...

73. (Journal Article): Oral tolerance: immune mechanisms and the generation of Th3-type TGF-beta-secreting regulatory cells.

Weiner HL
 
ABSTRACT: Oral tolerance is a long recognized method to induce peripheral immune tolerance. Oral tolerance has been used successfully to treat animal models of autoimmune diseases and is bei...