Diabetes, Vol 40, Issue 9 1210-1217, Copyright © 1991 by American Diabetes Association

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Morphological analysis of selective destruction of pancreatic beta-cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes in NOD mice

M Hayakawa, K Yokono, M Nagata, N Hatamori, W Ogawa, A Miki, H Mizoguti and S Baba
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.

Interactions of pancreatic islets and islet-associated mononuclear cells (IAMCs) from the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse were morphologically investigated. To obtain IAMCs, pancreatic islets isolated from adult NOD mice were cultured for 7 days with interleukin 2. Noted by light microscopy, interactions between IAMCs and freshly isolated islets from young NOD mice began 30 min after the initiation of the coculture, and 6 h later, normal cellular array of the islets was lost. By electron microscopy, most IAMCs had low nucleus-cytoplasm ratio, the nucleus was notched and exhibited condensed chromatin along the nuclear membrane, and well-developed Golgi complexes and several mitochondria were distributed in the cytoplasm. These IAMCs adhered to beta-cells, but not to alpha- or delta-cells, with their pseudopods and caused cytolysis of beta-cells. Immunohistochemical study with antibodies specific for pancreatic hormones demonstrated that only cells reacting with anti-insulin antibody were selectively lost as the incubation time proceeded. Electron immunohistochemistry by immunogold technique showed that effector cells in IAMCs reacted with anti-CD8 (Lyt-2) antibody, but not anti-CD4 (L3T4) or anti-asialogangliosideM1 antibody. In addition, the concentration of pancreatic hormones in the culture medium, used as a marker of cytolysis, also demonstrated that insulin was significantly increased after 6 h of culture, whereas glucagon and somatostatin were not. These results suggest that CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes are involved in the selective destruction of pancreatic beta-cells in the NOD mouse.
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