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DIABETES
Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 906-916Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db08-1464
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [DK59579]
- Larry Hillblom Foundation
- NIH Ruth L. Mrschstein National Research Service Award
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OBJECTIVE-Obesity is a known risk factor for type 2 diabetes. However, most obese individuals do not develop diabetes because they adapt to insulin resistance by increasing beta-cell mass and insulin secretion. Islet pathology in type 2 diabetes is characterized by beta-cell loss, islet amyloid derived from islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), and increased beta-cell apoptosis characterized by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. We hypothesized that IAPP-induced ER stress distinguishes successful versus unsuccessful islet adaptation to insulin resistance. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-To address this, we fed wild-type (WT) and human LAPP transgenic (HIP) rats either 10 weeks of regular chow or a high-fat diet and prospectively examined the relations among beta-cell mass and turnover, beta-cell ER stress, insulin secretion, and insulin sensitivity. RESULTS-A high-fat diet led to comparable insulin resistance in WT and HIP rats. WT rats compensated with increased insulin secretion and beta-cell mass. In HIP rats, in contrast, neither beta-cell function nor mass compensated for the increased insulin demand, leading to diabetes. The failure to increase beta-cell mass in HIP rats was the result of ER stress-induced beta-cell apoptosis that increased in proportion to diet-induced insulin resistance. CONCLUSIONS-IAPP-induced ER stress distinguishes the successful versus unsuccessful islet adaptation to a high-fat diet in rats. These studies are consistent with the hypothesis that LAPP oligomers contribute to increased beta-cell apoptosis and beta-cell failure in humans with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 58: 906-916, 2009
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