date:Jan 09, 2013
abetes in animal models. Type 1 diabetes is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of the pancreas.
In the current study, the researchers compared the fecal microbiota composition in 18 children with at least two diabetes associated autoantibodies with healthy children without autoantibody.
It was found that children with -cell autoimmunity had a low abundance of lactic acid producing and butyric acid producing bacteria, compared with healthy children.