ea0088003 | Abstracts | BES2022
Gabriele Sassi
, Giada Licata
, Giuliana Ventriglia
, Darcy Ellis
, Damme Niels Van
, Yvan Saeys
, Silvia Caluwaerts
, Alessia Mori
, Pieter Rottiers
, Chantal Mathieu
, Francesco Dotta
, Conny Gysemans
, Guido Sebastiani
Background and aims: Combining systemic immunomodulation with disease-relevant antigens could provide longer-term solutions for preventing and even reversing autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D). Our team established that a combination therapy (CT), composed of a short-course low-dose anti-CD3 treatment with oral delivery of genetically-modified Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) bacteria secreting full proinsulin plus the anti- inflammatory cytokine IL-10 (LL-PINS+I...