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Age-related islet inflammation marks the proliferative decline of pancreatic beta-cells in zebrafish.
eLife 7:e32965 (2018)
The pancreatic islet, a cellular community harboring the insulin-producing beta-cells, is known to undergo age-related alterations. However, only a handful of signals associated with aging have been identified. By comparing beta-cells from younger and older zebrafish, here we show that the aging islets exhibit signs of chronic inflammation. These include recruitment of -expressing macrophages and the activation of NF-kB signaling in beta-cells. Using a transgenic reporter, we show that NF-kB activity is undetectable in juvenile beta-cells, whereas cells from older fish exhibit heterogeneous NF-kB activity. We link this heterogeneity to differences in gene expression and proliferation. Beta-cells with high NF-kB signaling proliferate significantly less compared to their neighbors with low activity. The NF-kB signaling cells also exhibit premature upregulation of , an age-related gene that inhibits beta-cell proliferation. Together, our results show that NF-kB activity marks the asynchronous decline in beta-cell proliferation with advancing age.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Cell Biology ; Zebrafish
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2050-084X
e-ISSN
2050-084X
Journal
eLife
Quellenangaben
Volume: 7,
Article Number: e32965
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications
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Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research (IPI)