Restoring a functional β-cell mass in diabetes
Restoring a functional β-cell mass in diabetes
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1463-1326.2008.00941.x
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发表时间:
2008-11-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Gorus, F.
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作者:
Pipeleers, D.;Chintinne, M.;Gorus, F.
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes have often been presented as disease forms that profoundly differ in the presence and pathogenic significance of a reduced P-cell mass. We review evidence indicating that the P-cell mass in type 1 diabetes is usually not decreased by at least 90% at clinical onset, and remains often detectable for years after diagnosis at age above 15 years. Clinical and experimental evidence also exists for a reduced P-cell mass in type 2 diabetes where it can be the cause for and/or the consequence of dysregulated beta-cell functions. With P-cell mass defined as number of beta-cells, these views face the limitation of insufficient data and methods for human organs. Because P-cells call occur under different phenotypes that vary with age and with environmental conditions, we propose to use the term functional beta-cell mass as an assessment of a P-cell Population by the number of P-cells and their phenotype or functional state. Assays exist to measure functional beta-cell mass in isolated preparations. We selected a glucose-clamp test to evaluate functional beta-cell mass in type I patients at clinical onset and in type 1 recipients following intraportal islet cell transplantation. Comparison of the data with those in non-diabetic controls helps targeting and monitoring of therapeutic interventions.