Human Islets Infected With CVB4 May Provide Better Understanding Of Cellular Resp

reports that in findings published not long ago in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, researchers “looked at how infecting human islets with the enterovirus coxsackievirus B4 (CVB4) could lead them to better understanding the cellular response” that causes type 1 diabetes. Investigators “write that clinical reports and epidemiological data support that enteroviral infections may accelerate the autoimmune disease process, and that pancreatic tissue from patients with recent-onset type 1 diabetes reveals enteroviral RNA sequences and evidence of viral proteins in islets, consistent with the possibility that low-grade infection in pancreatic islets may contribute to disease progression.” https://endocrinenews.endocrine.org/human-islets-infected-virus-may-provide-insight-etiology-type-1-diabetes/