Method of diagnosing preclinical diabetes

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of diagnosing preclinical insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus by determining the T cell response to a specific islet cell antigen fetal antigen 1 (FA1) or the presence of autoantibodies against FA1 in serum, a test kit for use in the method, as well as a pharmaceutical composition of FA1 and a method for use of the pharmaceutical composition for therapy of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.