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ey0018.10-13 | (1) | ESPEYB18

10.13. Type 1 diabetes can present before the age of 6 months and is characterized by autoimmunity and rapid loss of beta cells

MB Johnson , KA Patel , E De Franco , W Hagopian , M Killian , TJ McDonald , TIM Tree , C Domingo-Vila , M Hudson , S Hammersley , R; EXE-T1D Consortium Dobbs , S Ellard , SE Flanagan , AT Hattersley , RA Oram

Diabetologia. 2020;63(12):2605–2615. doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05276-4.Diabetes diagnosed at <6 months of age is often of monogenic origin. However, 10-15% of affected infants do not have a pathogenic variant in one of the 26 known neonatal diabetes genes. In this study, 166 infants diagnosed at <6 months of age without such pathogenic variants showed all the the classic feat...

ey0020.8-13 | New Mechanisms | ESPEYB20

8.13. Low-dose IL-2 reduces IL-21(+) T cell frequency and induces anti-inflammatory gene expression in type 1 diabetes

JY Zhang , F Hamey , D Trzupek , M Mickunas , M Lee , L Godfrey , JHM Yang , ML Pekalski , J Kennet , F Waldron-Lynch , ML Evans , TIM Tree , LS Wicker , JA Todd , RC Ferreira

Brief summary: This study used high-resolution single-cell multiomics and flow cytometry on blood samples from patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) to examine the effects of low-dose recombinant IL-2 (iLD-IL-2). Administration of iLD-IL-2 expanded thymic-derived FOXP3+HELIOS+ Tregs and CD56bright NK cells, reduced frequency of IL-21-producing CD4+T cells, and induced long-lived anti-inflammatory transcriptional changes in all T and NK...