DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR AUTOIMMUNE VERSIONS OF DIABETES MELLITUS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/53 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: diagnostic technique for the autoimmune versions of diabetes mellitus, with the autoimmune versions of diabetes mellitus being diagnosed by comparing the production of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) (pcg/ml) in supernatant after lymphocyte culture taken from patient's blood sample in the autoantigen insulin stimulation environment. The test is considered to be positive if the TNFα in the insulin post-stimulation sample increases its value in the no-stimulation environment.

EFFECT: invention enables diagnosing the autoimmune inflammatory process in the pancreatic tissue that enables assessing a degree of autoimmune aggression on the pancreatic tissue.

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