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Gender-dependent expression of pancreatic proteins in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-013-0324-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Cox AR, Beamish CA, Carter DE, Arany EJ, Hill DJ. Cellular mechanisms underlying failed beta cell regeneration in offspring of protein-restricted pregnant mice. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2013; 238:1147-59. [PMID: 23986224 DOI: 10.1177/1535370213493715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Low birth weight and poor foetal growth following low protein (LP) exposure are associated with altered islet development and glucose intolerance in adulthood. Additionally, LP-fed offspring fail to regenerate their β-cells following depletion with streptozotocin (STZ) in contrast to control-fed offspring that restore β-cell mass. Our objective was to identify signalling pathways and cellular functions that may be critically altered in LP offspring rendering them susceptible to developing long-term glucose intolerance and decreased β-cell plasticity. Pregnant Balb/c mice were fed a control (C; 20% protein) or an isocaloric LP (8% protein) diet throughout gestation and C diet thereafter. Female offspring were injected intraperitoneally with 35 mg/kg STZ or vehicle on days 1 to 5 for each dietary treatment. At 30 days of age, total RNA was extracted from pancreatic tissue for microarray analysis using the Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0. Gene and protein expression were quantified from isolated islets. Finally, β-cell proliferation was determined in vitro following REG1α treatment. The microarray data and GO enrichment analysis indicated that foetal protein restriction alters the early expression of genes necessary for many cell functions, such as oxidative phosphorylation and free radical scavenging. Expression of Reg1 was upregulated following STZ, whereas protein content was decreased in LP + STZ islets. Furthermore, REG1α failed to stimulate β-cell proliferation in vitro in LP + STZ islets. Therefore, early nutritional insults may programme the Reg1 pathway resulting in a limited ability to increase β-cell mass during metabolic stress. In conclusion, this study implicates the Reg1 pathway in β-cell regeneration and describes altered programming of gene expression in LP offspring, which underlies later development of cell dysfunction and glucose intolerance in adulthood.
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- Aaron R Cox
- Lawson Health Research Institute, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4V2
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Li B, Luo C, Chowdhury S, Gao ZH, Liu JL. Parp1 deficient mice are protected from streptozotocin-induced diabetes but not caerulein-induced pancreatitis, independent of the induction of Reg family genes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 186:83-91. [PMID: 23954400 DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2013.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2012] [Revised: 06/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (Parp) 1 is a key regulator of cell death, its inhibition prevented streptozotocin-induced diabetes and attenuated caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis. Reg family proteins are significantly induced by Parp1 inhibitor, experimental diabetes and/or acute pancreatitis. We propose that Reg proteins are involved in the protection of pancreatic cells by Parp1 inhibition. To test this possibility, Parp1-/- and wild-type mice were injected with streptozotocin to induce diabetes. Separately, acute pancreatitis was induced with repeated injections of caerulein. Upon streptozotocin administration, Parp1-/- mice displayed much decreased hyperglycemia and preserved serum insulin level. The treatment induced similar levels of Reg1, -2, -3α and -3β genes in the pancreas of both wild-type and Parp1-/- mice, suggesting that the upregulation of Reg family genes during streptozotocin-induced diabetes was independent of Parp1 ablation. In caerulein-induced pancreatitis, unlike being reported, Parp1 knockout caused no relief on the severity of pancreatitis; the upregulation of pancreatic Reg1, -2, -3α and -3β genes upon caerulein was unaffected by Parp1 deletion. Our results reconfirmed the protective effect of Parp1 gene deletion on islet β-cells but questioned its effect on the acinar cells. In either case, the significant induction of Reg family genes seemed independent of Parp1-mediated cell death.
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- Bing Li
- Fraser Laboratories for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
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Kaya-Dagistanli F, Ozturk M. The role of clusterin on pancreatic beta cell regeneration after exendin-4 treatment in neonatal streptozotocin administrated rats. Acta Histochem 2013; 115:577-86. [PMID: 23351716 DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2012.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2012] [Revised: 12/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We investigated the effects of exendin-4 (Ex4) treatment on expression of clusterin and β cell regeneration in the endocrine pancreas in neonatal streptozotocin (nSTZ) diabetic rats. Three groups were used: (1) n2-STZ group; on the second day after birth 100mg/kg STZ was given i.p. to two groups of newborn rats, (2) n2-STZ+Ex4 group; 3μg/kg/day Ex4 was given for 5 days starting on the third day, and (3) control group. In situ hybridization for mRNAs of insulin and clusterin, double immunostaining for insulin/clusterin and insulin/BrdU were carried out. Immunostaining for insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, clusterin, synaptophysin and pdx-1 was performed. In the n2-STZ+Ex4 group, BrdU/insulin and insulin/clusterin immunopositive cells were significantly increased in the islets of Langerhans in comparison to the other groups. The areas occupied by the insulin mRNA and peptide positive cells and also pdx-1 immunopositive cells were decreased in the n2-STZ diabetic group compared with the other groups. The clusterin mRNA and protein positive cells, and also the glucagon and somatostatin cells, were significantly increased in the islets of the n2-STZ and the n2-STZ+Ex4 groups compared with the control group. The results show that Ex4 treatment induces new beta cell clusters via up-regulation of clusterin, which might be effective on beta-cell proliferation and neogenesis.
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Choi SA, Suh HJ, Yun JW, Choi JW. Differential gene expression in pancreatic tissues of streptozocin-induced diabetic rats and genetically-diabetic mice in response to hypoglycemic dipeptide cyclo (His-Pro) treatment. Mol Biol Rep 2012; 39:8821-35. [PMID: 22707198 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1746-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 06/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Diabetic studies are mostly interested in gene expression in the pancreas, the site of insulin secretion that regulates blood glucose levels. However, a single gene approach has been ruled out for many years in discovering new genes or the molecular networks involved in the induction process of diabetes. To understand the molecular mechanisms by which cyclo (His-Pro) (CHP) affects amelioration of diabetes mellitus, we performed gene expression profiling in the pancreatic tissues of two diabetic animal models, streptozocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats (T1DM) and genetically-diabetic (C57BL/6J ob/ob) mice (T2DM). To understand the healing process of these diabetic rodents, we examined the effects of CHP on various gene expression in pancreatic tissues of both animal models. Our microarray analysis revealed that a total of 1,175 genes were down-regulated and 629 genes were up-regulated in response to STZ treatment, and the altered expression levels of numerous genes were restored to normal state upon CHP treatment. In particular, 476 genes showed significantly altered gene expression upon CHP treatment. In a functional classification, 7,198 genes were counted as differentially expressed in pancreatic tissues of STZ- and CHP-treated rats compared with control, whereas 1,534 genes were restored to normal states by CHP treatment. Microarray data demonstrated for the first time that overexpression of the genes encoding IL-1 receptor, lipid metabolic enzymes (e.g. Mte1, Ptdss1, and Sult2a1), myo-inositol oxygenase, glucagon, and somatostatin as well as down-regulation of olfactory receptor 984 and mitochondrial ribosomal protein, which are highly linked to T1DM etiology. In genetically-diabetic mice, 4,384 genes were altered in gene expression by more than 2-fold compared to the control mice, when counted differentially expressed. In genetically-diabetic mice, 4,384 genes altered in expression by higher than 2-fold were counted as differentially expressed genes in pancreatic tissues of CHP-treated mice. On the other hand, 2,140 genes were up-regulated and 2,244 genes were down-regulated by CHP treatment. The results of the microarray analysis revealed that up-regulation of IL-2, IL12a, and leptin receptor and down-regulation of PIK3 played important physiological roles in the onset of T2DM. In conclusion, we hypothesize that CHP accelerates alterations of gene expression in ameliorating diabetes and antagonizes those that induces the disease.
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- Song Ah Choi
- Department of Bioindustry, Daegu University, Kyungsan, Kyungbuk 712-714, Republic of Korea
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Li B, Wang X, Liu JL. Pancreatic acinar-specific overexpression of Reg2 gene offered no protection against either experimental diabetes or pancreatitis in mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2010; 299:G413-21. [PMID: 20489047 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00500.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Reg proteins are normally expressed in pancreatic acinar cells, and the level of several of these proteins was significantly induced upon damage to the endocrine or exocrine pancreas. It has been established that Reg1 and pancreatic islet neogenesis-associated protein [INGAP, Reg3delta] promote the growth or regeneration of the endocrine islet cells. Recent reports suggest that Reg2 is an autoantigen normally expressed in islet beta-cells. Reg2 overexpression in vitro offered protection to insulinoma cells. Overexpressed Reg3alpha increased cyclin D1 and CDK4 levels and the rate of proliferation in insulinoma cells. Acinar-specific overexpression of INGAP increased beta-cell mass and protected the animals from streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Moreover, Reg2 gene expression was induced during pancreatitis. We hypothesized that Reg2 is a secreted protein that promotes the growth, survival, and/or regeneration of pancreatic endocrine and exocrine cells. To test its effectiveness, we used elastase-1 promoter (Ela-Reg2) to develop an acinar cell-specific overexpression of the Reg2 gene. Western blot analysis, real-time PCR, and immunohistochemistry revealed barely detectable levels of endogenous Reg2 in the pancreas of normal wild-type mice and increased Reg2 levels in the pancreas of Ela-Reg2 mice that were similar to or higher than Reg2 levels induced in experimental diabetes or pancreatitis. Compared with wild-type littermates, growth, blood glucose and insulin levels, and glucose tolerance were normal in Ela-Reg2 mice; pancreatic histology revealed no change in endocrine or exocrine tissues. Acinar-specific overexpression of the Reg2 gene offered no protection against streptozotocin-induced beta-cell damage and diabetes, in hyperglycemia and weight loss, and no advantage in restoring glucose homeostasis and islet function within 3 mo. Furthermore, serum amylase level and pancreatic histochemistry showed that Reg2 overexpression did not protect acinar cells against caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis. In contrast to INGAP or Reg3beta, exocrine overexpression of Reg2 offered no protection to the endocrine or exocrine pancreas, indicating clear subtype specificities of the Reg family of proteins.
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- Bing Li
- Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Kim SW, Hwang HJ, Baek YM, Lee SH, Hwang HS, Yun JW. Proteomic and transcriptomic analysis for streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat pancreas in response to fungal polysaccharide treatments. Proteomics 2008; 8:2344-61. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Lu Y, Ponton A, Okamoto H, Takasawa S, Herrera PL, Liu JL. Activation of the Reg family genes by pancreatic-specific IGF-I gene deficiency and after streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mouse pancreas. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2006; 291:E50-8. [PMID: 16449294 PMCID: PMC2950860 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00596.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We have recently reported that Pdx1-Cre-mediated whole pancreas inactivation of IGF-I gene [in pancreatic-specific IGF-I gene-deficient (PID) mice] results in increased beta-cell mass and significant protection against both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Because the phenotype is unlikely a direct consequence of IGF-I deficiency, the present study was designed to explore possible activation of proislet factors in PID mice by using a whole genome DNA microarray. As a result, multiple members of the Reg family genes (Reg2, -3alpha, and -3beta, previously not known to promote islet cell growth) were significantly upregulated in the pancreas. This finding was subsequently confirmed by Northern blot and/or real-time PCR, which exhibited 2- to 8-fold increases in the levels of these mRNAs. Interestingly, these Reg family genes were also activated after streptozotocin-induced beta-cell damage and diabetes (wild-type T1D mice) when islet cells were undergoing regeneration. Immunohistochemistry revealed increased Reg proteins in exocrine as well as endocrine pancreas and suggested their potential role in beta-cell neogenesis in PID or T1D mice. Previously, other Reg proteins (Reg1 and islet neogenesis-associated protein) have been shown to promote islet cell replication and neogenesis. These uncharacterized Reg proteins may play a similar but more potent role, not only in normal islet cell growth in PID mice, but also in islet cell regeneration after T1D.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Immunohistochemistry
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/deficiency
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/genetics
- Islets of Langerhans/metabolism
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Lithostathine/biosynthesis
- Lithostathine/genetics
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Transgenic
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Pancreatitis-Associated Proteins
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Affiliation(s)
- Yarong Lu
- Fraser Laboratories, Rm. M3-15, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Ave. West, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada
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Matos M, Park R, Mathis D, Benoist C. Progression to islet destruction in a cyclophosphamide-induced transgenic model: a microarray overview. Diabetes 2004; 53:2310-21. [PMID: 15331540 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.9.2310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Type 1 diabetes appears to progress not as an uncontrolled autoimmune attack on the pancreatic islet beta-cells, but rather in a highly regulated manner. Leukocytic infiltration of the pancreatic islets by autoimmune cells, or insulitis, can persist for long periods of time before the terminal destruction of beta-cells. To gain insight on the final stage of diabetogenesis, we have studied progression to diabetes in a CD4(+) T-cell receptor transgenic variant of the NOD mouse model, in which diabetes can be synchronously induced within days by a single injection of cyclophosphamide. A time-course analysis of the gene expression profiles of purified islets was performed using microarrays. Contrary to expectations, changes in transcripts subsequent to drug treatment did not reflect a perturbation of gene expression in CD4(+) T-cells or a reduction in the expression of genes characteristic of regulatory T-cell populations. Instead, there was a marked decrease in transcripts of genes specific to B-cells, followed by an increase in transcripts of chemokine genes (cxcl1, cxcl5, and ccl7) and of other genes typical of the myelo-monocytic lineages. Interferon-gamma dominated the changes in gene expression to a striking degree, because close to one-half of the induced transcripts issued from interferon-gamma-regulated genes.
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- Michael Matos
- Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Joslin Diabetes Center, 1 Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Stimulation of pancreatic islet neogenesis: a possible treatment for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1097/01.med.0000125482.65536.0a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Takatori A, Ohta E, Inenaga T, Horiuchi K, Ishii Y, Itagaki SI, Kyuwa S, Yoshikawa Y. Protective Effects of Probucol Treatment on Pancreatic .BETA.-cell Function of SZ-induced Diabetic APA Hamsters. Exp Anim 2003; 52:317-27. [PMID: 14562608 DOI: 10.1538/expanim.52.317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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To clarify whether oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of islet lesions of diabetic animals, the effects of probucol (PB), an antioxidant and anti-hyperlipidemia agent, on the islets in streptozotocin (SZ)-induced diabetic APA hamsters in the acute and chronic phases of diabetes were examined. The control (CB group) and diabetic (SZ group) hamsters were treated with PB (1% in the diet) for 4 weeks from several days after SZ injection as the acute diabetic group, or 8 weeks from 6 weeks after SZ injection as the chronic diabetic group. Glucose tolerance test revealed that PB treatment decreased the high serum glucose level after glucose injection in the diabetic APA hamsters in the acute diabetic phase. Immunohistochemistry revealed that PB treatment significantly increased the percentage of the insulin positive area in the diabetic hamsters pancreata in both the acute and chronic phases. In addition, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (4HNE; an oxidative stress marker) positive cells were slightly reduced by PB treatment in the acute diabetic phase. Double-immunostaining for insulin and PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen) revealed that elevation of the percentage of insulin and PCNA double-positive cells against insulin-positive cells was seen in the islets of PB-treated diabetic hamsters, but the difference was not significant compared with untreated diabetic hamsters (p = 0.07). In semi-quantitative RT-PCR, the expression of two genes, Reg (Regenerating gene) and INGAP (islet neogenesis associated protein), in the diabetic APA hamsters was significantly increased compared to the control groups in both diabetic phases. PB treatment significantly reduced Reg expression in the chronic diabetic phase. These data suggest that PB treatment in SZ-injected diabetic hamsters partially restored beta-cell function through acting as an antioxidant and induced higher expression of Reg and INGAP genes in the pancreas of hamsters.
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- Atsushi Takatori
- Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Hardikar AA, Bhonde RR. Modulating experimental diabetes by treatment with cytosolic extract from the regenerating pancreas. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 1999; 46:203-11. [PMID: 10624786 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8227(99)00098-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We have recently reported that Streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic animals operated for partial pancreatectomy (Px) showed normoglycemic status after the operation as compared to uncontrolled hyperglycemia and even death in the diabetic sham operated animals. In order to study the nesidioblastotic factors that initiate pancreatic regeneration in conditions of acute diabetes, we tested the cytosolic extracts from the regenerating pancreas on their ability to cure STZ diabetes in BALB/c mice. BALB/c mice (n = 45) were rendered diabetic with STZ (200 mg/kg body weight) and randomised into two groups so as to receive either cytosolic extract (CE) or saline (diabetic-sham/DS group) for 21 consecutive days. CE treated animals became euglycemic by day 29 and remained normoglycemic during a 190 day follow-up. DS animals remained hyperglycemic with around 70% mortality following sustained uncontrolled hyperglycemia. Islet neogenesis was observed in the CE treated animals and confirmed by increasing circulating insulin concentrations (8.87 +/- 1.07 vs. 41.47 +/- 3.26 microU/ml, mean +/- SEM), islet area (median values 521.5; day 5 to 16481.9 micron2; at 2 months of normoglycemic status) and subsequent decrement in fasting glucose (321.9 +/- 18.00 mg/dl; day 0 to 96.0 +/- 9.02 mg/dl; day 29). Histological analysis of the pancreas in the CE treated group revealed numerous tiny neo-islets as compared to the larger mature islets in the non-diabetic controls. We have shown that factors obtained from the regenerating pancreas carry the potential to initiate islet neogenesis and normoglycemia in the streptozotocin diabetic animals. Our findings could have important clinical implications in the management of diabetes mellitus.
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- A A Hardikar
- Tissue Engineering and Banking Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India
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