Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

LRH-1 agonism favours an immune-islet dialogue which protects against diabetes mellitus

  • Nadia Cobo-Vuilleumier,
  • Petra I. Lorenzo,
  • Noelia García Rodríguez,
  • Irene de Gracia Herrera Gómez,
  • Esther Fuente-Martin,
  • Livia López-Noriega,
  • José Manuel Mellado-Gil,
  • Silvana-Yanina Romero-Zerbo,
  • Mathurin Baquié,
  • Christian Claude Lachaud,
  • Katja Stifter,
  • German Perdomo,
  • Marco Bugliani,
  • Vincenzo De Tata,
  • Domenico Bosco,
  • Geraldine Parnaud,
  • David Pozo,
  • Abdelkrim Hmadcha,
  • Javier P. Florido,
  • Miguel G. Toscano,
  • Peter de Haan,
  • Kristina Schoonjans,
  • Luis Sánchez Palazón,
  • Piero Marchetti,
  • Reinhold Schirmbeck,
  • Alejandro Martín-Montalvo,
  • Paolo Meda,
  • Bernat Soria,
  • Francisco-Javier Bermúdez-Silva,
  • Luc St-Onge,
  • Benoit R. Gauthier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03943-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is characterized by beta cell loss because of an autoimmune attack. Here the authors show that an agonist for LRH-1/NR5A2, a nuclear receptor known to be protective against beta cell apoptosis, inhibits immune-mediated inflammation and hyperglycemia in T1DM mouse models.