%0 Journal Article
%A Baena-Nieto, Gloria
%A Lomas-Romero, Isabel M.
%A Mateos, Rosa M.
%A Leal-Cosme, Noelia
%A Perez-Arana, Gonzalo
%A Aguilar-Diosdado, Manuel
%A Segundo, Carmen
%A Lechuga-Sancho, Alfonso M.
%T Ghrelin mitigates beta-cell mass loss during insulitis in an animal model of autoimmune diabetes mellitus, the BioBreeding/Worcester rat
%D 2017
%@ 1520-7552
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18608
%X Background Ghrelin is a peptide hormone with pleiotropic effects. It stimulates cell proliferation and inhibits apoptosis-mediated cell death. It prevents diabetes mellitus in several models of chemical, surgical and biological toxic insults to pancreas in both in vivo and in vitro models and promotes glucose-stimulated insulin secretion under cytotoxic conditions. It has not yet been tested in vivo in an autoimmune model of diabetes with a persistent insult to the beta-cell. Given the immunomodulating effects of ghrelin and its trophic effects on beta-cells, we hypothesized that ghrelin treatment during the early stages of insulitis would delay diabetes onset.Methods BioBreeding/Worcester male rats received ghrelin (10 ng/kg/day) before insulitis development. Glucose metabolism was characterized by glucose and insulin tolerance tests. beta-cell mass, islet area, islet number, beta-cell clusters, proliferation and apoptosis and degree of insulitis were analysed by histomorphometry. A Kaplan-Meier survival curve was plotted and analysed applying the log-rank (Mantel-Cox) test.Results Ghrelin treatment significantly reduced the probability of developing diabetes in our model (p
%K ghrelin
%K autoimmne
%K prevention
%K beta-cell viability
%K cytokines
%K type 1 diabetes
%K Cytokine gene-expression
%K Kappa-b activation
%K Acute-pancreatitis
%K Unacylated ghrelin
%K Apoptosis
%K Islets
%K Streptozotocin
%K Differentiation
%K Inflammation
%K Endocrine
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