Cytomegalic Virus-Associated Insulitis in Diabetic Octodon degus
Cytomegalic Virus-Associated Insulitis in Diabetic Octodon degus
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糖尿病八齿八齿鼠巨细胞病毒相关性胰岛炎
DOI:
10.1177/030098587901600520
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
J. Murphy
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作者:
J. Fox;J. Murphy
The development of juvenile onset diabetes in man has been associated with several viral infections, including mumps, rubella and coxsackie virus [4, 6, 171. Pancreatitis with or without insulitis also has occurred with mumps, rubella and coxsackie virus infections. Reports of generalized cytomegalovirus infections of infants with morphologic signs of infection in several organs, including the pancreas, are not infrequent. Pancreatitis and insulitis sometimes occur with characteristic nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in islet cells and acinar and ductal epithelial cells. Generalized cytomegalovirus infections also have been associated with immunodeficient patients and the pancreatic involvement has been similar to that reported in neonates [8, 13, 19). The most persuasive evidence for virus induced diabetes, however, has been the production of diabetes in mice by both reo-3 and encephalomyocarditis virus 12, IS]. Characteristic inclusions also have been found in islet beta cells in immunosuppressed mice infected with cytomegalovirus [I]. We recently reported diabetes mellitus in degus (Ocrodon degu) [5 , LO, 141. We now report characteristic cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies in islet cells (fig. 1) and acinar (fig. 2) and ductal cells of degu pancreases. Serial sections of pancreas of every degu previously necropsied were reexamined for cytomegalovirus inclusions. Fourteen of 28 I pancreases contained such inclusion bodies. These 14 degus and 10 others also had inclusions in the salivary glands. Ten of the 24 degus had clinical signs of diabetes. Most inclusions in the pancreas were in acinar cells, but regardless of the cell affected some degree of insulitis was found in almost every pancreas that contained inclusions. (fig. I ) . With electron microscopy, many spherical DNA virus-like particles about 200 nanometers in diameter were seen in pancreatic acinar tissue from a diabetic degu (fig. 3). These particles probably are cytomegalovirus because they are similar in shape and size to cytomegalovirus particles in man and other animals, and numerous characteristic cytomegalovirus inclusions were found by light microscopy in the same pancreas. Clinical evidence of diabetes in the degu was indicated by glucosuria, elevated fasting blood glucose or abnormal glucose tolerance in 4 I of 28 I ( 15%) degus necropsied. Cytomegalovirus inclusions were seen in the pancreas of seven degus with and seven without clinical evidence of diabetes. Other lesions in the degu pancreas that we previously reported included hypertrophy and hyperplasia (fig. 4) and amyloidosis (fig. 5) of the islets of L.angerhans. Hyperplasia and hypertrophy of islets occurred in the 14 degus with inclusions in the pancreas. Amyloidosis of the islets was noted in six of 24 pancreases. four of which had inclusions in the pancreatic tissue. The six with amyloidosis of the islets usually had one or more islets with insulitis accompanying the amyloid deposit (fig. 4). The insulitis in degus with cytomegalovirus infections is morphologically similar to that in juvenile onset diabetes in man [7]. The observation of islet amyloidosis is intriguing because this also is found in diabetes in man. and a specific form of amyloid (amyloid AA) is known to be associated with chronic infections [ 181. Several other animal models. including several strains of diabetic mice and the spiny mice. have hyperplasia of pancreatic islets 19. 161. Man