Gabriele Sassi, Giada Licata, Giuliana Ventriglia, Amber Wouters, Pierre Lemaitre, Ruth Seurinck, Alessia Mori, Giuseppina Emanuela Grieco, Samal Bissenova, Darcy Ellis, Silvia Caluwaerts, Pieter Rottiers, Niels Vandamme, Chantal Mathieu, Francesco Dotta, Conny Gysemans, Guido Sebastiani
Immunomodulation combined with antigen therapy holds great promise to arrest autoimmune type 1 diabetes, but clinical translation is hampered by a lack of prognostic biomarkers. Lowdose anti-CD3 plus Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) bacteria secreting proinsulin and IL-10 reversed new-onset disease in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, yet some mice were resistant to the therapy. Using microRNA (miRNA) profiling, six miRNAs (i.e., miR-34a-5p, miR-125a- 3p, miR-193b-3p, miR-328, miR-365-3p, and miR-671-3p) were identified as differentially expressed in plasma of responder versus non-responder mice before study entry...
July 26, 2023: Diabetes