Apoptosis and disease progression in the spontaneously diabetic BB/S rat

Diabetologia
F J LallyA J Bone

Abstract

Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease culminating in pancreatic beta-cell destruction. A role for apoptosis in this destruction has been suggested, although controversy exists over the identity of the apoptotic cells and the time of onset of apoptosis. This study investigates the extent and timing of islet cell apoptosis in vivo in the spontaneously diabetic BB/S rat. Pancreatic biopsies were taken from 30 diabetes-prone and 6 diabetes-resistant BB/S rats matched for age. Animals were serially biopsied before, during and after development of diabetes and apoptotic cells analysed in serial sections. The diabetes-prone group included animals (n = 6) that had insulitis but did not develop diabetes. Apoptosis was not detected in any pancreatic sections from diabetes resistant animals at any age investigated or from any animal before 50 days of age. By 68 days, apoptosis was, however, detectable in both the diabetes-prone group and in the group that had insulitus but did not develop diabetes and this correlated with a decrease in pancreatic insulin staining and a development of insulitis. There was a further increase in apoptosis in the diabetes-prone group at 85 days, which coincided with the time of...Continue Reading

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