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Query: UMLS:C0024312 (lymphopenia)
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In summary, our bone marrow chimeras studies suggest that there are two defects in the BB rat associated with diabetes and/or lymphopenia, one residing at the level of the bone marrow lymphoid stem cell and the other within the T-cell differentiative environment, apparently postthymic. Our neonatal thymus transplantation studies and the adult thymus transplantation studies of others suggest a third defect in the BB rat, within the thymus itself, but this defect appears not to be responsible for the development of either the diabetes or the T lymphocytopenia. Rather, the thymic defect appears to control, at least in part, the lymphocyte hyporesponsiveness characteristic of the diabetes-prone BB rat. The role of the RT6 T-cell differentiation antigen in the etiopathogenesis of diabetes in this animal model remains unclear.
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PMID:The spontaneously diabetic BB rat: sites of the defects leading to autoimmunity and diabetes mellitus. A review. 219 61