[Blockade of IL-1 receptor with anakinra, the recombinant form of IL-1Ra, or neutralizing anti-IL-1beta antibodies, provides proof-of-principle data that reducing IL-1beta activity is sufficient for correcting dysfunctional beta-cell production of insulin in type 2 diabetes, including a possibility that suppression of IL-1beta-mediated inflammation in the microenvironment of the islet allows for regeneration.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE