Ninety percent depancreatized rats received daily intra-peritoneal injection of 0.5 g/kg nicotinamide and 0.05 g/kg 3-aminobenzamide, potent inhibitors of islet poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase. One to three months after the partial pancreatectomy, urinary and plasma glucose levels in nicotinamide- and 3-aminobenza-mide-treated rats were markedly lower than those in saline-treated control rats. Morphologic examination of the remaining pancreata revealed that islets in the poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase inhibitor-treated rats were markedly enlarged and consisted largely of B-cells. These results suggest that poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase inhibitors induce islet B-cell regeneration, thereby preventing or improving diabetes mellitus in partially depancreatized rats.
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April 01 1984
Amelioration of Diabetes Mellitus in Partially Depancreatized Rats by Poly(ADP-ribose) Synthetase Inhibitors: Evidence of Islet B-Cell Regeneration
Yutaka Yonemura;
Yutaka Yonemura
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Toru Takashima;
Toru Takashima
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Koichi Miwa;
Koichi Miwa
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Itsuo Miyazaki;
Itsuo Miyazaki
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Hiroshi Yamamoto;
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Hiroshi Okamoto
Hiroshi Okamoto
Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama
Japan
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine
Kanazawa, Japan
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Address reprint requests to Professor Hiroshi Okamoto, Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Toyama 930-01, Toyama, Japan.
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Yutaka Yonemura, Toru Takashima, Koichi Miwa, Itsuo Miyazaki, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto; Amelioration of Diabetes Mellitus in Partially Depancreatized Rats by Poly(ADP-ribose) Synthetase Inhibitors: Evidence of Islet B-Cell Regeneration. Diabetes 1 April 1984; 33 (4): 401–404. https://doi.org/10.2337/diab.33.4.401
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