. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Here I briefly summarize work done by us and others indicating that a prevalent subset of autoreactive CD8 T-cells in the NOD mouse are major (albeit likely dispensable) players in the pathogenesis of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes in the NOD mouse; that these T cells are targets of genetic elements affording autoimmune disease susceptibility and resistance; that they can either be diabetogenic or anti-diabetogenic according to their avidity for peptide/MHC; and that they can serve as useful targets for therapeutic intervention.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2014-02-25"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:37:21+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .