Stacking the Deck: Studies of Patients with Multiple Autoimmune Diseases Propelled Our Understanding of Type 1 Diabetes as an Autoimmune Disease

摘要

Although symptoms of diabetes were first written about in 1500 bc, the etiology of the disease was a mystery until Minkowski and von Mering found that the pancreas governs glucose control ([1][1]). This led to the discovery and use of insulin in 1922 ([2][2]), enabling the survival of children with