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VIRCHOWS ARCHIV
卷 444, 期 4, 页码 375-382出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-003-0967-z
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beta cell; streptozotocin; cell death; nitric oxide; poly(ADP ribose) polymerase
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Streptozotocin (STZ) is widely used for the induction of diabetes in animals by causing destruction of pancreatic beta cells. This experiment was designed to elucidate the sequential process of beta-cell destruction in rats with a single high-dose injection of STZ. At 0, 2, 5, 8 and 24 h after injection, rats were perfused with Krebs-Ringer buffer with dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCF-DA), a marker for free radicals, and the pancreata were pathologically analyzed. Injection of STZ rapidly elicited an increase in fluorescence of DCF-DA in beta cells at 2 h after the injection. The fluorescence was diminished by carboxy-PTIO, a specific scavenger of nitric oxide (NO), but not by L-NAME, an inhibitor of NO synthase. During this process, an inducible form of NO synthase was not detected. Thereafter, upregulated expression of poly(ADP ribose) polymerase (PARP) and massive beta-cell death were detected at 5-8 h after injection. Migration of macrophages into the islet was conspicuous at 24 h, clearing up the debris of destroyed beta cells. Nicotinamide, a PARP inhibitor, significantly inhibited beta-cell death without apparent suppression of NO generation at 2 h. The current study documented serial processes of STZ-induced beta-cell death, starting with NO generation and PARP activation followed by a clearance with macrophages, where the activation of PARP plays a central role in beta-cell death.
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