“People can generate autoimmunity occasionally, but it tends to be corralled by the body’s protective mechanisms,” said Todd Brusko, Ph.D., director of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute.
Brusko and a team of UF Health collaborators describe in a new study how a group of immune stem-like cells appears to perpetuate type 1 diabetes by potentially renewing themselves and replenishing the supply of immune T cells that carry out the autoimmune attack.