LIMITED B-CELL REGENERATION IN A B-CELL DEFICIENT RAT MODEL - STUDIES WITH DEXAMETHASONE
LIMITED B-CELL REGENERATION IN A B-CELL DEFICIENT RAT MODEL - STUDIES WITH DEXAMETHASONE
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DOI:
10.1016/0026-0495(81)90071-8
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
WEIR, GC
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作者:
BONNERWEIR, S;TRENT, DF;WEIR, GC
Neonatal rats treated with streptozotocin (SZ) at 2 days of age show a transient hyperglycemia with regeneration of B cells that parallels the recovery of normoglycemia. At 6 wk of age, these animals develop non-ketotic hyperglycemia, suggesting that the regeneration of B cells after the early SZ treatment was insufficient and limited. To test the replicative capacity of the B cells in this model, induction of additional replication was attempted with a 13 day treatment of pharmacological amounts of the glucocorticoid dexamethasone. Dexamethasone treatment led to a marked increase of plasma glucose in SZ-treated rats (196 .+-. 23 mg/dl pretreatment vs. 428 .+-. 30 mg/dl post-treatment), while not affecting that of the normal littermates. Plasma insulin concentrations were increased in both groups. Pancreatic insulin concentration was increased by the glucocorticoid in the normal non-SZ rats, whereas no increase in the already low insulin concentrations was found in the SZ group. Dexamethasone produced an increase in the B cell number/islet of the non SZ animals, but no increase in the reduced B cell number of the SZ rats. Evidence is provided for a limitation in the capacity for B cell replication in this model. With regard to other islet peptides, dexamethasone did not cause a significant change in plasma glucagon concentrations. Pancreatic glucagon concentration, which was reduced in the SZ rats, was normalized with glucocorticoid treatment. Pancreatic somatostatin concentration was similar in both the non-SZ and SZ groups, and increased following dexamethasone in both of these groups. Glucocorticoid led to a fall in the somatostatin concentration of the gastric antrum in both groups. The effects of dexamethasone upon pancreatic and gastric somatostatin concentrations are divergent. The mechanisms responsible for the changes in glucagon and somatostatin tissue content remain unclear.