Journal
JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 76, Issue 2, Pages 359-367Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1103591
Keywords
pancreas; development; remodeling; pregnancy; osteopetrotic mice
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 30820] Funding Source: Medline
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Macrophages play an important role in organ development, tissue homeostasis, and remodeling. Thus, we monitored the presence of F4/80-positive macrophages in the pancreas of wildtype mice, and some developmental features of this complex tissue were compared throughout life in wild-type and macrophage-deficient Csf1(op)/Csf1(op) (op/op) mice. The combined use of immunohistochemistry, morphometry, and cell quantification allows us to evaluate insulin and glucagon cell mass, total and insulin cell proliferation, and apoptosis in fetuses (E18.5), weanings (postnatal day 21), nonpregnant adults, and adults in late pregnancy (18.5 days). F4/80-positive macrophages were found in pancreases recovered from Csf1(op)/Csf1(+) (op/+) mice but were extremely scarce or absent in pancreas recovered from op/op ones at all studied time-points. The macrophage-deficient op/op phenotype was clearly associated with a major insulin mass deficit in fetuses and adults, abnormal postnatal islet morphogenesis, and impaired pancreatic cell proliferation at weaning and late pregnancy. We also obtained indirect evidence of increased neogenesis in this model at time-points when pancreatic remodeling does occur. The demonstration of the colony-stimulating factor 1-dependent macrophage involvement in fife-time pancreas development/remodeling allows us to pinpoint the tissue-modeling and remodeling functions of this leukocyte lineage.
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