Effects of Food Restriction on Glucose Tolerance, Insulin Secretion, and Islet-Cell Proliferation in Pregnant Rats

1998 ◽  
Vol 65 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 671-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.G Nieuwenhuizen ◽  
G.A Schuiling ◽  
A.F.J Seijsener ◽  
H Moes ◽  
T.R Koiter
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Glucose Tolerance ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Food Restriction ◽  
Pregnant Rats

scholarly journals Identification of a small molecule that stimulates human β-cell proliferation and insulin secretion, and protects against cytotoxic stress in rat insulinoma cells

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans E. Hohmeier ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Brandon Taylor ◽  
Samuel Stephens ◽  
Peter McNamara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Human Islet ◽  
Luciferase Reporter ◽  
Β Cell ◽  
Cytotoxic Stress ◽  
Insulinoma Cells ◽  
Rat Insulinoma

AbstractA key event in the development of both major forms of diabetes is the loss of functional pancreatic islet β-cell mass. Strategies aimed at enhancing β-cell regeneration have long been pursued, but methods for reliably inducing human β-cell proliferation with full retention of key functions such as glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) are still very limited. We have previously reported that overexpression of the homeobox transcription factor Nkx6.1 stimulates β-cell proliferation, while also enhancing GSIS and providing protection against β-cell cytotoxicity through induction of the VGF prohormone. We developed an Nkx6.1 pathway screen by stably transfecting 832/13 rat insulinoma cells with a VGF promoter-luciferase reporter construct, using the resultant cell line to screen a 630,000 compound chemical library. We isolated three compounds with consistent effects to stimulate human islet cell proliferation. Further studies of the most potent of these compounds, GNF-9228, revealed that it selectively activates human β-cell relative to α-cell proliferation and has no effect on δ-cell replication. In addition, pre-treatment, but not short term exposure of human islets to GNF-9228 enhances GSIS. GNF-9228 also protects 832/13 insulinoma cells against ER stress- and inflammatory cytokine-induced cytotoxicity. In contrast to recently emergent Dyrk1a inhibitors that stimulate human islet cell proliferation, GNF-9228 does not activate NFAT translocation. These studies have led to identification of a small molecule with pleiotropic positive effects on islet biology, including stimulation of human β-cell proliferation and insulin secretion, and protection against multiple agents of cytotoxic stress.

scholarly journals Effect of early dietary restriction on insulin action and secretion in the GK rat, a spontaneous model of NIDDM

2000 ◽  
Vol 278 (6) ◽  
pp. E1097-E1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Alvarez ◽  
Danielle Bailbe ◽  
Françoise Picarel-Blanchot ◽  
Eric Bertin ◽  
Ana-Maria Pascual-Leone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Glucose Tolerance ◽  
Glucose Uptake ◽  
Insulin Action ◽  
Food Restriction ◽  
Plasma Insulin ◽  
Insulin Level ◽  
Gk Rat ◽  
Basal Plasma

The availability of the Goto-Kakisaki (GK) rat model of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus prompted us to test the effect of a limited period of undernutrition in previously diabetic young rats on their insulin secretion and insulin action during adult age. Four-week-old female GK rats were either food restricted (35% restriction, 15% protein diet) or protein and energy restricted (35% restriction, 5% protein diet) for 4 wk. Food restriction in the young GK rat lowered weight gain but did not aggravate basal hyperglycemia or glucose intolerance, despite a decrease in basal plasma insulin level. Furthermore, the insulin-mediated glucose uptake by peripheral tissues in the GK rat was clearly improved. We also found that food restriction, when it is coupled to overt protein deficiency in the young GK rat, altered weight gain more severely and slightly decreased basal hyperglycemia but conversely aggravated glucose tolerance. Improvement of basal hyperglycemia was related to repression of basal hepatic glucose hyperproduction, despite profound attenuation of basal plasma insulin level. Deterioration of tolerance to glucose was related to severe blunting of the residual glucose-induced insulin secretion. It is, however, likely that the important enhancement of the insulin-mediated glucose uptake helped to limit the deterioration of glucose tolerance.

Effect of Silencing Information Regulator on Islet β Cells in High Glucose Environment Through Regulation of Phosphatidylinositol 3 Kinase (PI3K)/Protein Kinase B (AKT)/Nuclear Factor-κ-Gene Binding Pathway

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1624-1629
Author(s):  
Nali Liu ◽  
Beijing Zhu ◽  
Xin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
High Glucose ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Phosphatidylinositol 3 Kinase ◽  
Sod Activity ◽  
Sirt1 Expression ◽  
Cell Supernatant

Islet β-cell regeneration is beneficial for treating diabetic patients. Silencing information regulator (SIRT1) has a regulatory role in endocrine diseases. However, SIRT1’s role in islet β cells remains unclear. MIN6 cells were cultured and assigned into control group, high glucose group, and SIRT1 group (treated with SIRT1 agonist, Resveratrol) followed by analysis of SIRT1 expression by Real time PCR and ELISA, cell proliferation by MTT assay, apoptosis activity by Caspase3 activity kit, secretion of TNF-α and IL-2 by ELISA, insulin secretion, ROS and SOD generation and expression of PI3K/Akt/NF-κB signaling by Western blot. SIRT1 mRNA was decreased in high glucose environment and its secretion in cell supernatant was reduced, with inhibited cell proliferation, increased Caspase3 activity and secretion of TNF-α and IL-2, decreased insulin secretion and SOD activity, increased ROS content, pAKT phosphorylation and NF-κB expression. Resveratrol significantly promoted SIRT1 expression and cell proliferation, decreased Caspase3 activity and secretion of TNF-α and IL-2, increased insulin secretion and SOD activity, as well as decreased ROS content, pAKT phosphorylation and NF-κB expression (P <0.05). SIRT1 is decreased in high glucose environment, and SIRT1 expression can inhibit islet cell apoptosis, inhibit oxidative stress and inflammation, and promote islet cell proliferation and insulin secretion by regulating PI3K/Akt/NF-κB signaling.

Vagotomy in young obese hyperglycemic mice: effects on syndrome development and islet proliferation

1998 ◽  
Vol 274 (6) ◽  
pp. E1034-E1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Edvell ◽  
Per Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Glucose Tolerance ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Serum Insulin ◽  
Cholinergic Innervation ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Metabolic Demand ◽  
Islet Volume

Obese hyperglycemic mice have large pancreatic islets and high levels of serum insulin and blood glucose. Vagotomy was performed on 3-wk-old animals to investigate the role of gut cholinergic innervation in young Umeå ob/ob mice. After vagotomy, obesity and hyperglycemia are dissociated. Weight increase in obese vagotomized mice was lower than in sham-operated controls during the 1st wk postoperatively but not thereafter. Blood glucose was lower up to 5 mo after vagotomy, but vagotomized mice showed reduced glucose tolerance. Islet cell proliferation rate was reduced 2 and 3 wk but not 5 mo after vagotomy. After 5 mo, islet volume was smaller in vagotomized mice. Serum insulin levels were the same in vagotomized animals as in sham-operated controls. The effects of reduced cholinergic innervation are probably caused both by direct effects of denervation and by lowered metabolic demand.

Pre-diabetes in the spontaneously diabetic BB/E rat: pancreatic infiltration and islet cell proliferation

1987 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Bone ◽  
R. Walker ◽  
B. M. Dean ◽  
J. D. Baird ◽  
A. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Cell Surface ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Secretory Function ◽  
Cell Replication ◽  
Concomitant Increase ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
Circulating Autoantibodies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. A cohort of BB/E rats derived from litters with a high and low incidence of IDDM was studied prospectively to examine the relationship between circulating autoantibodies, islet insulin secretion, pancreatic infiltration, and islet cell replication during the pre-diabetic period. Although a higher incidence of islet cell surface (ICSA) and insulin autoantibodies (IAA) was detected in the diabetes-prone than in the low diabetic-incidence BB/E rats there was no correlation between the two antibodies in individual animals. Moreover, ICSA, but not IAA, were associated with loss of first phase islet insulin release. Between 75 and 105 days of age the number of diabetes-prone rats with ICSA and impaired islet insulin secretory function increased. Over the same period, there was a concomitant increase in the proportion of diabetes-prone animals with pancreatic infiltration, and increased islet endocrine cell proliferation. All these interrelated phenomena were observed in diabetes-prone BB/E rats at a time when the animals were normoglycaemic.

scholarly journals Growth-Promoting Effect of Rh(D) Antibody on Human Pancreatic Islet Cells

2008 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 3560-3567
Author(s):  
John M. Feller ◽  
Ann M. Simpson ◽  
Margaret Nelson ◽  
M. Anne Swan ◽  
Philip J. O'Connell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Islet Cell ◽  
Islet Cells ◽  
Flow Cytometric Analysis ◽  
Antigen Expression ◽  
Immunofluorescent Staining ◽  
Promoting Effect ◽  
Cell Hyperplasia ◽  
Proliferative Effect

Context/Objective: Hyperinsulinism with islet cell hyperplasia is a frequent complication, of unknown cause, in hemolytic disease of the newborn, occurring in Rh(D)-positive infants of Rh-isoimmunized Rh(D)-negative mothers, but not in infants with other hemolytic disorders. We investigated the possibility that trans-placentally acquired anti-D Ig is the cause of both conditions. Design: Monolayer cultures of human islet cells were exposed to sera from Rh-isoimmunized mothers and newborns, where jaundice, hyperinsulinism, and hypoglycemia in the infant had ensued. Parallel cultures with anti-D, specific anti-D monoclonal antibodies, normal human Ig (15 μg/ml), and serum controls were also undertaken. Islet cell proliferation was determined by [3H]thymidine incorporation. Insulin storage and chronic and acute insulin secretion to glucose were analyzed by RIA. Rh(D) surface antigen expression was determined on islet cells by flow cytometric analysis. Results: Islet cell proliferation and insulin secretion were significantly greater in coculture with test sera (P &lt; 0.01; n = 8) and with anti-D (P &lt; 0.001; n = 8), compared with either controls or Ig. After 8 d of growth, the static incubation experiment showed a 3.5-fold response to glucose stimulus in all sera. Rh(D) antigen expression was detected on the islet cell surface by flow cytometry, and islet cell morphology was normal. Colocalization of the proliferation marker Ki67 with insulin by immunofluorescent staining further indicated that Rh(D) antibody promoted islet growth. Conclusions: The anti-Rh(D) islet cell proliferative effect generates neonatal hyperinsulinism in Rh isoimmunization. Anti-Rh(D) may have application for islet cell proliferation in diabetes mellitus treatment for Rh(D)-positive subjects. Further analysis is required.

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