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ArticleCellular immunology2015

Chlamydia pneumoniae promotes dysfunction of pancreatic beta cells.

Annette R Rodriguez, Germán Plascencia-Villa, Colleen M Witt, Jieh-Juen Yu, Miguel José-Yacamán, James P Chambers, George Perry, M Neal Guentzel, Bernard P Arulanandam

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Article in Cellular immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Annette R RodriguezRCMI Biophotonics Core, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
Germán Plascencia-VillaRCMI Nanotechnology and Human Health Core, Department of Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
Colleen M WittRCMI Biophotonics Core, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
Jieh-Juen YuSouth Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
Miguel José-YacamánDepartment of Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
James P ChambersSouth Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
George PerryUTSA Neurosciences Institute, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
M Neal GuentzelSouth Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States.
Bernard P ArulanandamSouth Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States. Electronic address: bernard.arulanandam@utsa.edu.
Texas Center for Infectious Disease · USThe University of Texas at San Antonio · USNeurosciences Institute · US

Funding

RCMI Center for Interdiscplinary Health Research CIHRG12MD007591 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI PERRY, GEORGE · 2012 to 2016
$10.4M
NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007591NIMHD NIH HHS G12MD007591
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae has been implicated in chronic inflammatory diseases including type 2 diabetes. Therefore, we designed a study to evaluate pancreatic beta cells and mast cells during chlamydial infection. Our study revealed that C. pneumoniae infected mast cells significantly (p<0.005) decreased beta cell ATP and insulin production, in contrast to uninfected mast cells co-cultured with beta cells. Infected mast cells exhibited pyknotic nuclei and active caspase-3 and caspase-1 expression. Additionally, ex vivo analyses of tissues collected from C. pneumoniae infected mice showed increased interleukin-1β production in splenocytes and pancreatic tissues as was observed with in vitro mast cell-beta cell co-cultures during C. pneumoniae infection. Notably, infected mast cells promoted beta cell destruction. Our findings reveal the negative effect of C. pneumoniae on mast cells, and the consequential impact on pancreatic beta cell function and viability.

Indexed as

AnimalsCaspase 1Caspase 3Cell SurvivalChlamydia InfectionsChlamydophila pneumoniaeCoculture TechniquesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Flow CytometryInsulin-Secreting CellsInterleukin-1betaLiverMast CellsMice, Inbred C57BLMice, ObeseMicroscopy, ConfocalCaspase 1Caspase 3Interleukin-1betaBeta cellsInsulinMast cellsObesityType 2 diabetes

Identifiers

PMID25863744
PMCPMC4533996
OpenAlexW2011935816

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