ArticleJournal of the Endocrine Society2019
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Article in Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Low-oxygenated and dormant islets with a capacity to become activated when needed may play a crucial role in the complex machinery behind glucose homeostasis. We hypothesized that low-oxygenated islets, when not functionally challenged, do not rapidly cycle between activation and inactivation but are a stable population that remain low-oxygenated. As this was confirmed, we aimed to characterize these islets with regard to cell composition, vascular density, and endocrine cell proliferation. The 2-nitroimidazole low-oxygenation marker pimonidazole was administered as a single or repeated dose to Wistar Furth rats. The stability of oxygen status of islets was evaluated by immunohistochemistry as the number of islets with incorporated pimonidazole adducts after one or repeated pimonidazole injections. Adjacent sections were evaluated for islet cell composition, vascular density, and endocrine cell proliferation. Single and repeated pimonidazole injections over an 8-hour period yielded accumulation of pimonidazole adducts in the same islets. An average of 30% of all islets was in all cases positively stained for pimonidazole adducts. These islets showed a similar endocrine cell composition as other islets but had lower vascular density and
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