IL10 and diabetes mellitus: Moreover, when we transferred total splenocytes from non-diabetic BDC2.5+Il-10-/- or BDC2.5+Il-10+/+ NOD mice into NOD.scid mice, splenocytes from BDC2.5+Il-10-/- mice induced rapid diabetes in the NOD.scid recipients as early as 3-days after transfer (Figure 3J).