Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of β-cells of the pancreas. Numerous studies have demonstrated the key role of FoxP3+ regulatory T-cells in the development of type 1 diabetes.Aim: The aim of research: 1) to determine the expression patterns of transcription factor FoxP3 in the pancreatic lymph node cells in animal model of diabetes mellitus and 2) to assay an effect of m...

Introduction: mTOR is not only a central regulator of lipid metabolism, controlling the processes of adipogenesis and lipolysis, but also a regulator of immunometabolism of immune cells infiltrating the adipose tissue. In its turn, the level of progression of diabetes is largely limited by Treg subpopulation, the complexity and heterogeneity of which is confirmed by the detection of numerous tissue-specific Tregs, including the so-called VAT Tregs (visceral adipose tissue CD4+...