Scientific Commons: Melissa A. Pierce

Islet cell autoimmunity and transplantation tolerance: two distinct mechanisms (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Pierce, Melissa A., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., ...

Recent advances in islet transplantation have enabled physicians to cure type 1 autoimmune diabetes, but at the cost of lifelong immunosuppression with its attendant side effects and long-term health...

Genetic separation of the transplantation tolerance and autoimmune phenotypes in NOD mice (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Pierce, Melissa A., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., ...

Genetic disassociation of autoimmunity and resistance to costimulation blockade-induced transplantation tolerance in nonobese diabetic mice (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Pierce, Melissa A., Marron, Michele P., Wicker, Linda S., ...

Curing type 1 diabetes by islet transplantation requires overcoming both allorejection and recurrent autoimmunity. This has been achieved with systemic immunosuppression, but tolerance induction...

Childhood depression and its effects on social competence [microform] : implications for a reciprocal model of depression / (2000)

Pierce, Melissa A.

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

Diabetes Acceleration or Prevention by a Coxsackievirus B4 Infection: Critical Requirements for both Interleukin-4 and Gamma Interferon

Serreze, David V., Wasserfall, Clive, Ottendorfer, Eric W., Stalvey, Michael, Pierce, Melissa A., Gauntt, Charles, ...

Type 1 diabetes acceleration in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice through coxsackievirus B4 (CVB4) infection requires a preexisting critical mass of autoreactive T cells in pancreatic islets, and in the...

Adenovirus Early Region 3 Transgenes Expressed in β Cells Prevent Autoimmune Diabetes in Nonobese Diabetic Mice: Effects of Deleting the Adenovirus Death Protein 11.6K

Pierce, Melissa A., Svetlanov, Anton, Horwitz, Marshall S., Serreze, David V.

The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is decreased in nonobese diabetic mice expressing the complete cassette of adenovirus early region 3 (E3) immunomodulating genes in pancreatic β cells....