Category: Current nPOD Projects

Detection of enteroviruses in lymphoid tissue of donors with T1D of short duration and attempts to identify the infected cell type(s)

If type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused/triggered by a viral infection in select genetic backgrounds – and Enteroviruses (EVs) are felt as major culprits –  investigators are expecting to find EVs into pancreatic Langerhans islets and also in association with spleen, lymph nodes, peripheral blood leukocytes. Infection of lymphoid cells, in fact, is common in […]