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ILAR JOURNAL
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 225-233Publisher
INST LABORATORY ANIMAL RESEARCH, NATL RES COUNCIL
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.47.3.225
Keywords
amyloid; apoptosis; beta-cell; diabetes; h-IAPP transgenic mouse; HIP rat; islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP)
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK59579] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [R01DK059579] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Blood glucose concentrations are maintained by insulin secreted from beta-cells located in the islets of Langerhans. There are similar to 2000 beta-cells per islet, and similar to one million islets of Langerhans scattered throughout the pancreas. The islet in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) has deficient beta-cell mass due to increased beta-cell apoptosis and islet amyloid derived from islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP). Accumulating evidence implicates toxic IAPP oligomers in the mediation of beta-cell apoptosis in T2D. Humans, monkeys, and cats express an amyloidogenic toxic form of IAPP and spontaneously develop diabetes characterized by islet amyloid deposits. However, longitudinal studies of islet pathology in humans are impossible, and studies in nonhuman primates and cats are costly and impractical. Rodent IAPP is not amyloidogenic, thus commonly used rodent models of diabetes do not recapitulate islet pathology in humans. To investigate the diabetogenic role of human IAPP (h-IAPP), several mouse models and, more recently, a rat model transgenic for hIAPP have been developed. Studies in these models have revealed that the toxic effect of h-IAPP on beta-cell apoptosis demonstrates a threshold-dependent effect. Specifically, increasing h-IAPP transgene expression by breeding or induction of insulin resistance leads to increased beta-cell apoptosis and diabetes. These transgenic rodent models for h-IAPP provide an opportunity to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for h-IAPP-induced beta-cell apoptosis further and to test novel approaches to the prevention and treatment of T2D.
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