Diabetes, Vol 30, Issue 2 106-111, Copyright © 1981 by American Diabetes Association

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Prevention of diabetic nephropathy by diet control in the db/db mouse

SM Lee and R Bressler

Diabetes in the C57BL/KsJ(db/db) mouse is initially expressed as hyperinsulinemia, followed by hyperphagia, progressive obesity, and widespread pathologic abnormalities. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of metabolic control on the natural history of the diabetic nephropathy. Beginning at 1 mo of age and continuing for 12 wk, diabetic mice were subjected to controlled dietary restriction, such that their weight was maintained similar to that of age-matched, nondiabetic heterozygotes. Diet-restricted diabetics were compared with diabetics fed ad libitum and heterozygote nondiabetics. Significant lowering of fasting blood glucose, water intake, and plasma insulin was achieved by diet restriction. The diet-restricted diabetes demonstrated enhanced metabolic efficiency, consuming approximately half as much food as the nondiabetics, while maintaining a similar weight. Diabetics fed ad libitum evidenced well-defined renal lesions that included 3 + to 4 + immunoglobulin deposition in the glomerular mesangium, and generalized mesangial matrix expansion. These lesions were completely prevented in diet-restricted diabetes whose glomeruli were normal light microscopy, and demonstrated trace to 1 + mesangial immunoglobulin deposition, features identical in all respects to the nondiabetics. These results indicate that diabetic control achieved by preventing of obesity in the db/db mouse prevents the development of diabetic nephropathy.
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