Reactivating Immune Checkpoints to Treat Type 1 Diabetes (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Reactivating Immune Checkpoints to Treat Type 1 Diabetes (3 of 8)

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Scientists treated diabetes and restored pancreatic function in mouse models by increasing the immune checkpoint molecule PD-L1.

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M. Ben Nasr <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2017)

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