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Naturally Occurring and Experimental Diabetes in Cynomolgus Monkeys: A Comparison of Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism and Islet Pathology

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1040

J. Mark Cline

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1040

Melanie K. Shadoan

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1040

Bill C. Bullock

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1040

Samuel E. Rankin

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1040

William T. Cefalu

Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont 05405

Diabetes is a major health problem of increasing incidence in the United States. Diabetes research has been limited by lack of availability of good animal models, particularly for the study of comorbidities associated with diabetes. We investigated the use of cynomolgus monkeys as an animal model of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and compared these naturally occurring diseases with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Both type 1 diabetics and streptozotocin-induced diabetics present with sudden onset of hyperglycemia and are ketosis prone without exogenous insulin. Type 2 diabetics can have a very long period of moderate hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia and only require exogenous insulin therapy if pancreatic islet reserves are depleted. Type 2 diabetes is preceded by a relatively long period of insulin resistance that is associated with obesity and dyslipidemia. As insulin resistance progresses, islet size and insulin content increases initially. However, with sustained periods of insulin resistance, islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) is deposited in islets and can replace normal islet architecture, resulting in an insulin-deficient state. Appearance of IAPP also occurs in human type 2 diabetics but not in conventional rodent models. Unlike type 2 diabetes, neither type 1 nor streptozotocin-induced diabetes is associated with IAPP. Rather, islets can appear normal histologically, but have decreased insulin secretion and immunostaining. Further, the amount of insulin present in the islet is correlated with plasma insulin levels following glucose challenge. Studies are ongoing to determine the pathogenic changes associated with the progression of diabetes and to find novel drug treatments for diabetics.

Key Words: Insulin • glucagon • pancreatic islets • amyloid • endocrine disease • monkeys

Toxicologic Pathology, Vol. 29, No. 1, 142-148 (2001)
DOI: 10.1080/019262301301418955


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