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DIABETES
Volume 59, Issue 9, Pages 2265-2270Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db10-0323
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- National Institutes of Health [AI46629, DK53006, HL077642, DK66636, DK69603, DK68854, DK72473]
- VA Research Service [DK32520, CA34196]
- Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center [DK20593]
- Beta Cell Biology Consortium [DK72473, AI042845]
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, International
- Helmsley Foundation
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OBJECTIVE-To create an immunodeficient mouse model that spontaneously develops hyperglycemia to serve as a diabetic host for human islets and stem cell-derived beta-cells in the absence or presence of a functional human immune system. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-We backcrossed the Ins2(Akita) mutation onto the NOD-Rag1(null) IL2r gamma(null) strain and determined 1) the spontaneous development of hyperglycemia, 2) the ability of human islets, mouse islets, and dissociated mouse islet cells to restore euglycemia, 3) the generation of a human immune system following engraftment of human hematopoietic stem cells, and 4) the ability of the humanized mice to reject human islet allografts. RESULTS-We confirmed the defects in innate and adaptive immunity and the spontaneous development of hyperglycemia conferred by the IL2r gamma(null), Rag1(null), and Ins2(Akita) genes in NOD-Rag1(null) IL2r gamma(null) Ins2(Akita) (NRG-Akita) mice. Mouse and human islets restored NRG-Akita mice to normoglycemia. Insulin-positive cells in dissociated mouse islets, required to restore euglycemia in chemically diabetic NOD-scid IL2r gamma(null) and spontaneously diabetic NRG-Akita mice, were quantified following transplantation via the intrapancreatic and subrenal routes. Engraftment of human hematopoietic stem cells in newborn NRG-Akita and NRG mice resulted in equivalent human immune system development in a normoglycemic or chronically hyperglycemic environment, with >50% of engrafted NRG-Akita mice capable of rejecting human islet allografts. CONCLUSIONS-NRG-Akita mice provide a model system for validation of the function of human islets and human adult stem cell, embryonic stem cell, or induced pluripotent stem cell-derived beta-cells in the absence or presence of an alloreactive human immune system. Diabetes 59:2265-2270, 2010
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