PMID: 7540575Jul 1, 1995Paper

Very-low-dose streptozotocin induces diabetes in insulin promoter-mB7-1 transgenic mice

Diabetes
D M HarlanC H June

Abstract

Transgenic mice that express mouse B7-1 (mB7-1, recently designated CD80) on their pancreatic beta-cells maintain normal islet architecture, have normal pancreatic insulin content, and only rarely spontaneously develop insulitis and diabetes. Nevertheless, these mice display an extreme sensitivity to streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes. Female mice were administered two STZ doses intraperitoneally, 20 and 40 mg/kg body wt, each for five consecutive days. Nontransgenic but otherwise syngeneic mice responded to the STZ with a moderate diminution in pancreatic insulin content but not with persistent glycosuria. In striking contrast, STZ administered to transgenic mice resulted in a severe diminution of pancreatic insulin content and in diabetes. Notably, the lower STZ dose resulted in diabetes only after a prolonged (26- to 100-day) latency. STZ-induced diabetes appears to be T-cell dependent, since treatment with T-cell-depleting (and in particular CD8+ subset-depleting) antibodies ameliorated the response. Anti-mB7-1 monoclonal antibody administration also prevented STZ-induced diabetes. Thus, unmasked mB7-1 is a required component in the pathway resulting in beta-cell killing. Immunohistological analysis revealed that early a...Continue Reading

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