Endocrine pancreas development is altered in foetuses from rats previously showing intra-uterine growth retardation in response to malnutrition

Diabetologia
B BlondeauB Bréant

Abstract

We have shown that perinatal malnutrition decreases beta-cell mass at birth and impairs the adaptation of the endocrine pancreas to a subsequent pregnancy. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of this maternal inadaptation on the development of endocrine pancreas in foetuses. Female rats malnourished during their perinatal life and showing intra-uterine growth retardation at birth were mated at 8 months of age. The development of the endocrine pancreas was studied at embryonic days 14, 17 and 20 in their foetuses by immunohistochemistry and morphometrical measurements on pancreatic sections. At embryonic day 20, both alpha and beta-cell fractions were decreased in foetuses from IUGR dams. Beta-cell mass was reduced (197 +/- 27 microg, vs 281 +/- 40 microg in control, p < 0.01) and so were insulin content and islet number per cm(2), as in the first generation foetuses. At embryonic day 14, the number of cells expressing only insulin was decreased by half in foetuses from intra-uterine growth retardation dams. At embryonic day 17, 50 % of the homeodomain protein Pdx-1 cell population expressed insulin but all the insulin cells expressed Pdx-1 in both groups; in foetuses from intra-uterine growth retardation dams the...Continue Reading

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