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Diabetologia ; 62(7): 1237-1250, 2019 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31087105

ABSTRACT

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Autoimmune attack against the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets results in type 1 diabetes. However, despite considerable research, details of the type 1 diabetes immunopathology in situ are not fully understood mainly because of difficult access to the pancreatic islets in vivo. METHODS: Here, we used direct non-invasive confocal imaging of islets transplanted in the anterior chamber of the eye (ACE) to investigate the anti-islet autoimmunity in NOD mice before, during and after diabetes onset. ACE-transplanted islets allowed longitudinal studies of the autoimmune attack against islets and revealed the infiltration kinetics and in situ motility dynamics of fluorescence-labelled autoreactive T cells during diabetes development. Ex vivo immunostaining was also used to compare immune cell infiltrations into islet grafts in the eye and kidney as well as in pancreatic islets of the same diabetic NOD mice. RESULTS: We found similar immune infiltration in native pancreatic and ACE-transplanted islets, which established the ACE-transplanted islets as reliable reporters of the autoimmune response. Longitudinal studies in ACE-transplanted islets identified in vivo hallmarks of islet inflammation that concurred with early immune infiltration of the islets and preceded their collapse and hyperglycaemia onset. A model incorporating data on ACE-transplanted islet degranulation and swelling allowed early prediction of the autoimmune attack in the pancreas and prompted treatments to intercept type 1 diabetes. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION: The current findings highlight the value of ACE-transplanted islets in studying early type 1 diabetes pathogenesis in vivo and underscore the need for timely intervention to halt disease progression.


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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/diagnostic imaging , Animals , Autoimmunity/physiology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/surgery , Graft Survival/physiology , Insulin-Secreting Cells/immunology , Insulin-Secreting Cells/metabolism , Islets of Langerhans/surgery , Islets of Langerhans Transplantation , Mice , Mice, Inbred NOD
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 108(31): 12863-8, 2011 Aug 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21768391

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Intravital imaging emerged as an indispensible tool in biological research, and a variety of imaging techniques have been developed to noninvasively monitor tissues in vivo. However, most of the current techniques lack the resolution to study events at the single-cell level. Although intravital multiphoton microscopy has addressed this limitation, the need for repeated noninvasive access to the same tissue in longitudinal in vivo studies remains largely unmet. We now report on a previously unexplored approach to study immune responses after transplantation of pancreatic islets into the anterior chamber of the mouse eye. This approach enabled (i) longitudinal, noninvasive imaging of transplanted tissues in vivo; (ii) in vivo cytolabeling to assess cellular phenotype and viability in situ; (iii) local intervention by topical application or intraocular injection; and (iv) real-time tracking of infiltrating immune cells in the target tissue.


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Anterior Chamber/cytology , Islets of Langerhans/cytology , Microscopy, Confocal/methods , T-Lymphocytes/cytology , Amides/pharmacology , Animals , Anterior Chamber/metabolism , Anterior Chamber/surgery , CCR5 Receptor Antagonists , Chemokines/pharmacology , Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/therapy , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics , Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism , Interferon-gamma/metabolism , Interleukin-2/metabolism , Islets of Langerhans/metabolism , Islets of Langerhans Transplantation/methods , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Inbred CBA , Microscopy, Video/methods , Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/pharmacology , Receptors, CCR5/metabolism , Single-Cell Analysis/methods , T-Lymphocytes/drug effects , T-Lymphocytes/metabolism , Time Factors
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