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Mukai K, Horike SI, Meguro-Horike M, Nakajima Y, Iswara A, Nakatani T. Topical estrogen application promotes cutaneous wound healing in db/db female mice with type 2 diabetes. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0264572. [PMID: 35271602 PMCID: PMC8912242 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Female sex hormones are beneficial effects for wound healing. However, till date, whether topical estrogen application can promote cutaneous wound healing in diabetes remains unclear. Therefore, the present study aimed to validate the effect of topical estrogen application on cutaneous wound healing in a type 2 diabetes db/db mice model. In total, 22 db/db female mice with type 2 diabetes and eight C57BL/6J female mice were subjected to two full-thickness wound injuries. The mice were divided into the db/db, db/db + estrogen, db/db + vehicle, and wild type (WT) groups. Wound healing was assessed until day 14. The db/db group had a significantly high wound area ratio (wound area/initial wound area) on days 3–14 and a significantly low re-epithelialization ratio on days 7 and 14. Moreover, their angiogenesis ratio was significantly low on day 7 and high on day 14. In contrast, compared with the db/db group, the db/db + estrogen group had a significantly lower wound area ratio on days 1–14 and angiogenesis ratio on day 14, thereby indicating early withdrawal of new blood vessels, as well as a significantly higher re-epithelialization ratio on days 7 and 14 and Ym1+ M2 macrophage/macrophage ratio on day 7. Moreover, microarray analysis showed that the top 10 upregulated or downregulated genes in the db/db group were reversed by estrogen treatment, particularly on day 14, in comparison with the WT group. Thus, topical estrogen application reduced the wound area, promoted re-epithelialization and angiogenesis, and increased the number of M2 macrophages in mice with type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, it improved the differential regulation of genes in db/db mice. Therefore, such treatment can enhance cutaneous wound healing in female mice with type 2 diabetes.
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- Kanae Mukai
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Division of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Nursing, Graduate Course of Nursing Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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Evans MC, Anderson GM. Dopamine Neuron-Restricted Leptin Receptor Signaling Reduces Some Aspects of Food Reward but Exacerbates the Obesity of Leptin Receptor-Deficient Male Mice. Endocrinology 2017; 158:4246-4256. [PMID: 28938472 DOI: 10.1210/en.2017-00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The contribution of leptin-induced modulation of dopamine neurons to feeding behavior and energy homeostasis remains unclear. Midbrain dopamine neurons regulate the reward value of food, and direct leptin administration to the midbrain reduces food intake. However, selective deletion of leptin receptors (Leprs) from dopamine neurons has no effect on body weight, food intake, or hedonic responses, suggesting that leptin acts indirectly or demonstrating that sufficient compensation occurs to mask any direct leptin-dopamine effects. To further explore the role of direct Lepr-dopamine neuron signaling in the control of feeding behavior and energy homeostasis, we generated mice in which Leprs were expressed exclusively in dopamine transporter (DAT)-expressing neurons (LeprDAT). We then assessed weekly body weight, daily food intake, hyperphagic feeding, and leptin-induced suppression of feeding in the LeprDAT mice compared with their Lepr-deficient (LeprNULL) and wild-type control (LeprCON) littermates. We also used metabolic cages to characterize running wheel activity, home-cage activity, and total energy expenditure. As expected, LeprNULL mice exhibited increased body weight and food intake compared with LeprCON mice. LeprDAT male mice exhibited acute leptin-induced suppression of food intake and reduced hedonic feeding but also exhibited significantly increased postweaning body weight gain compared with the LeprNULL mice. This was associated with significantly reduced home-cage activity counts, although no differences in food intake were observed between the LeprDAT and LeprNULL mice. These data demonstrate that restoring Lepr signaling exclusively in dopamine neurons reduces some aspects of food reward and activity but does not ameliorate the obesity phenotype of Lepr-deficient mice.
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- Maggie C Evans
- Centre for Neuroendocrinology and Department of Anatomy, University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand
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- Centre for Neuroendocrinology and Department of Anatomy, University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand
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Ultrastructural changes in rat ovarian cells of fetuses and neonates from diabetic mothers. COMPARATIVE CLINICAL PATHOLOGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s00580-013-1758-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Khaksar Z, Jelodar G, Hematian H, Poorahmadi M. Alterations of the ovarian histomorphometry at pre-puberty in rat offspring from diabetic mothers. Reprod Med Biol 2013; 12:173-178. [PMID: 29699143 DOI: 10.1007/s12522-013-0151-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2012] [Accepted: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Purpose Maternal diabetes leads to increased blood glucose concentration in the mother and consequently in the foetus, causing various neonatal problems. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of maternal diabetes on foetal ovarian structure. Methods Sixteen adult female rats were allocated into two equal groups. Diabetes was induced in one group by alloxan. Both groups became pregnant by natural mating. Thirty days after birth, the female offspring were terminated, the body weight and blood glucose of the animals measured and their ovaries removed. Various histological and cellular parameters were determined using histological and electron microscopy techniques. Results Results revealed a significant increase in body weight and blood glucose in the offspring of the diabetic mothers (ODM) compared to that of the controls. The weight, volume and diameter of the ovary and the ovarian capsule thickness were inclined to decrease in ODM compared to that of controls. The number and diameter of primary, pre-antral and antral follicles were decreased in ovaries in the ODM. The electro-micrographs have demonstrated the organelle alterations in oocytes and granulosa cells that suggest the apoptosis progress and oxidative stress. Conclusions Maternal hyperglycaemia exhibited deleterious effects on the female reproductive system in the offspring.
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- Zabihollah Khaksar
- Department of Basic Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine Shiraz University Shiraz Iran
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- Department of Basic Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine Shiraz University Shiraz Iran
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, Yasooj Branch Islamic Azad University Yasooj Iran
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Ovarian histomorphometric changes in adult offspring of diabetic rat mothers. COMPARATIVE CLINICAL PATHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00580-011-1392-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Garris DR, Novikova L, Garris BL, Lau YS. Hypercytolipidemia-induced nuclear lipoapoptosis: cytochemical analysis and integrated review of hypogonadal, diabetes-obesity syndrome-induced female reproductive axis disruption. Metab Syndr Relat Disord 2012; 2:198-209. [PMID: 18370687 DOI: 10.1089/met.2004.2.198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Expression of the diabetes (db/db) mutation (i.e., leptin receptor defect) in C57BL/KsJ mice results in the functional suppression of the female pituitary-gonadal axis accompanied by premature utero-ovarian lipocytoatrophy. The current studies define the cytostructural, metabolic and endocrine disturbances associated with hypercytolipidemia and coincident nuclear lipoapoptosis following expression of the db/db-mutation. Adult, female C57BL/KsJ control (+/+ and +/? genotypes) and db/db mutant littermates were monitored for systemic alterations in blood glucose, insulin, luteinizing hormone (LH) and 17-B-estradiol (E2) concentrations associated with db/db-enhanced cytolipid depositions and TUNEL-labeled 3'-DNA fragmentation indexed nuclear lipoapoptosis. Obesity, hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, in addition to depressed LH and E2 concentrations, characterized all db/db-mutants relative to control indices. Structural and cytochemical analysis of basophilic gonadotroph cells, ovarian follicular granulosa cells and uterine endometrial epithelial layers indicated that db/db mutants demonstrated prominent hypercytolipidemia relative to control cytoarchitecture profiles. Vasolipidemia and interstitial cytoadiposity were prominent in all db/db tissue compartments. In each affected cell type within the db/db pituitary-reproductive tract axis, hypercytolipidemia was localized with pronounced nuclear lipo-infiltration and 3'-DNA TUNEL-labeled fragmentation. These data indicate that coincident cytostructural, endocrine and metabolic disturbances associated with hypogonadal pituitary-reproductive tract hypercytolipidemia are functional manifestations of the expressed diabetes-obesity syndrome in db/db-mutants. The progressive vaso-, interstitial-, and cyto-lipidemic alterations in cytoarchitecture correlated with the coincident nuclear lipoapoptotic dissolution and pronounced organo-involution, alterations which contributed to the functional disruption of the pituitary-hypogonadal axis in C57BL/KsJ-db/db mice.
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- David R Garris
- Divisions of Cell Biology and Biophysics and Pharmacology, Schools of Biological Sciences, Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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Cushman TT, Kim N, Hoyt R, Traish AM. Estradiol ameliorates diabetes-induced changes in vaginal structure of db/db mouse model. J Sex Med 2009; 6:2467-79. [PMID: 19453883 DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01316.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Women with diabetes experience diminished genital arousal, reduced vaginal lubrication, vaginal atrophy, dyspareunia, and increased infections. Limited studies are available investigating the effects of diabetic complications on the vagina. AIMS The goals of this study were to investigate type 2 diabetes-induced changes in vaginal structure, and to determine if estradiol treatment ameliorates these changes. METHODS Eight-week-old female diabetic (db/db) mice (strain BKS*Cg-m+/+Lepr(db)/J) and age-matched control normoglycemic female littermates were used to investigate the effects of type 2 diabetes on vaginal tissue structural integrity. Diabetic animals were divided into two subgroups: diabetic treated with vehicle only and diabetic treated with pellets containing estradiol. At 16 weeks, the animals were sacrificed, and the vaginal tissues were excised and analyzed by histological and immunohistochemical methods to assess diabetes-induced changes in vaginal tissue and the extent by which these parameters are restored by estradiol treatment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The effects of type 2 diabetes and estradiol supplementation were investigated on vaginal histoarchitecture. RESULTS Diabetic animals exhibited high blood glucose levels (>600 mg/dL), increased body weight (43.0 +/- 6.0 g vs. 24.4 +/- 2.0 g), and reduced plasma estradiol levels (65.5 +/- 6.6 pg/mL vs. 80.77 +/- 13.2 pg/mL) when compared to control animals. Diabetes resulted in significant thinning of the epithelium (P <or= 0.05), marked decrease in the muscularis area (P </= 0.05), distinct truncation of elastic fibers, and significant reduction of the nitrergic immunoreactive nerve fibers (P <or= 0.05). Treatment of diabetic animals with estradiol restored epithelial thickness (P <or= 0.05), muscularis area (P <or= 0.05), and elastic fiber distribution, and partially restored the density of nitrergic nerve fibers. CONCLUSIONS The data in this study demonstrate that type 2 diabetes disrupts vaginal structural integrity and that estradiol supplementation ameliorates the diabetes-induced vaginal pathology.
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- Tulay T Cushman
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Cushman T, Kim N, Hoyt R, Traish AM. Estradiol restores diabetes-induced reductions in sex steroid receptor expression and distribution in the vagina of db/db mouse model. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2009; 114:186-94. [PMID: 19429450 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2009.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Revised: 01/28/2009] [Accepted: 01/29/2009] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Sex steroid hormones and receptors play an important role in maintaining vaginal physiology. Disruptions in steroid receptor signaling adversely impact vaginal function. Limited studies are available investigating the effects of diabetic complications on steroid receptor expression and distribution in the vagina. The goals of this study were to investigate type 2 diabetes-induced changes in expression, localization and distribution of estrogen (ER), progesterone (PR) and androgen receptors (AR) in the vagina and to determine if estradiol treatment ameliorates these changes. Eight-week-old female diabetic (db/db) mice (strain BKS.Cg-m+/+ Lepr(db)/J) were divided into two subgroups: untreated diabetic and diabetic animals treated with pellets containing estradiol. Control normoglycemic littermates were subcutaneously implanted with pellets devoid of estradiol. At 16 weeks of age, animals were sacrificed, vaginal tissues excised and analyzed by Western blot and immunohistochemical methods. Diabetes produced marked reductions in protein expression of ER, PR, and AR. Diabetes also resulted in marked differences in the distribution, staining intensity and proportion of immunoreactive cells containing these steroid receptors in the epithelium, lamina propria and muscularis. Treatment of diabetic animals with estradiol restored receptor protein expression and distribution similar to those levels observed in control animals. This study demonstrates that type 2 diabetes markedly reduces steroid receptor protein expression and distribution in the vagina. Estradiol treatment of diabetic animals ameliorates these diabetes-induced changes.
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- Tulay Cushman
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Traish AM, Cushman T, Hoyt R, Kim NN. Diabetes Attenuates Female Genital Sexual Arousal Response via Disruption of Estrogen Action. Korean J Urol 2009. [DOI: 10.4111/kju.2009.50.3.211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Abdulmaged M. Traish
- Department of Biochemistry and Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Garris DR. Hypercytolipidemia-induced cellular lipoapoptosis: Cytostructural and endometabolic basis of progressive organo-involution following expression of diabetes (db/db) and obese (ob/ob) mutation syndromes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 40:181-231. [PMID: 16765720 DOI: 10.1016/j.proghi.2006.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Onset expression of Type 2 (NIDDM) diabetes and obesity metabolic syndromes (DOS) are characterized by premature, progressive cytoatrophy and organo-involution induced by dysregulated cellular gluco- and lipo-metabolic cascades. The consequential systemic, interstitial and intracellular hyperlipidemia disrupts normal cytointegrity and metabolic responsivity to the established hypercaloric pericellular environments. The sequential cytostructural, metabolic and endocrine disturbances associated with the development of progressive DOS-associated hypercytolipidemia compromises cellular metabolic response cascades and promotes cytochemical disturbances which culminate with nuclear lipoapoptosis and cytoatrophy. The dramatic alterations in interstitial glucose and lipid (free fatty acids/triglycerides) concentrations are recognized to influence interstitial and cytoplasmic microchemical environments, which markedly alter cellular nutrient diffusion and active trans-membrane flux rates. The progressive exacerbation of interstitial and cytoplasmic lipid imbibition has been demonstrated to be associated with DNA fragmentation by lipo-infiltration into the chromatin matrix, inducing structural disruption and physical dissolution, indexed as nuclear lipoapoptosis. Therapeutic reduction of the severity of hypercytolipidemia-induced structural and cytochemical compromise promotes the restoration of homeostatic metabolic support for normalized cytostructural indices and supportive cellular gluco- and lipo-metabolic cascades. The re-establishment of a homeostatic interstitial microenvironment moderates the severity of cytolipidemic compromise within affected cell types, reduces nuclear lipo-infiltration and DNA lipo-dissolution, resulting in the preservation of cytostructural integrity. Through the therapeutic restoration of extra- and intra-cellular microchemical environments in genetically dysregulated metabolic syndrome models, the coincident cytochemical, endocrine and metabolic disturbances associated with progressive hypercytolipidemia, resulting from the expressed systemic hypercaloric environmental and hepato-pancreatic endometabolic disturbances which characterize Type 2 (NIDDM) diabetes-obesity and metabolic (X) syndromes, may be ameliorated.
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- David R Garris
- Division of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
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Garris DR. Gonadal steroid modulation of the diabetes (db/db) mutation-induced hyperlipometabolic, hypogonadal syndrome: Restoration of female reproductive tract cytochemical and structural indices. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 2005; 12:109-20. [PMID: 16023560 DOI: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2005.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2005] [Revised: 03/04/2005] [Accepted: 03/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The gonadal steroids, 17-B-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P), are recognized to stimulate cellular gluco- and lipo-metabolic compensatory cascades which counteract the deleterious influences of the diabetes (db/db) mutation (i.e., leptin membrane receptor defect) which promotes a progressive, hypercytolipidemia-induced premature involution of the female reproductive tract (FRT). The current studies define the therapeutic efficacy of E2 (1 microg/3.5 days) and P (1 mg/3.5 days) treatments (HRx) on utero-ovarian structural and cytochemical (gluco-/lipo-metabolic) maintenance, and the prevention of premature nuclear apoptosis and cytostructural disruption, following the expression of progressive db/db-induced hypercytolipidemia. Control (normal: +/+ and +/?) and diabetes (db/db) genotype groups of 8-week-old (i.e., overt phase of the db/db-hypogonadal syndrome) C57BL/KsJ mice were prepared for high resolution (HRLM) cytochemical and transmission electron (TEM) microscopic analysis of cytolipidemia and nuclear apoptosis (TUNEL-labeled 3'-DNA fragmentation) indices from uterine and ovarian secondary (early antral) follicular tissue samples. Compared to HRx controls, the db/db mutation induced a dramatic increase in cytolipid vacuole volume and density within all ovarian follicular granulosa cells (GC) and uterine endometrial epithelial (UEE) layers. The co-localization of nuclear apoptotic 3'-DNA fragments within identified hyperlipidemic granulosa cells was coincident with the cytochemical and ultrastructural identification of lipid penetration through the nuclear envelope in db/db mutants. P-HRx moderated the severity of db/db-induced GC and UEE hypercytolipidemia, reducing the cytodensity of lipid vacuole accumulations and maintaining cytoplasmic organelle structure, organization, and nuclear membrane integrity. In contrast, E2-HRx resulted in a dramatic reduction in db/db cytolipidemia in both ovarian GC and UEE tissue compartments. Following E2-HRx, UEE cells demonstrated non-pycnotic nuclear profiles, reduced nuclear apoptosis TUNEL-labeling, increased cytoplasmic organelle density profiles and a pronounced cytoplasmic cisternal expansion indicative of active cellular nutrient/metabolite trafficking. Ovarian follicular GC populations demonstrated minimal cytolipidemia, a restored cytoarchitecture with prominent organelle compartments and reduced TUNEL-indexed nuclear lipoapoptosis. These results are the first cytochemical and ultrastructural indications that P- and E2-HRx compensate for the genetic db/db mutation-induced metabolic disturbances, which promote utero-ovarian hypercytolipidemia and the coincident nuclear lipoapoptosis culminating in the expressed diabetes hypogonadal syndrome. The capability of P-HRx to moderate the severity of utero-ovarian involution in db/db mutants, and of E2-HRx to restore and maintain viable GC and UEE cyto-chemical and -structural indices under normoglycemic conditions, suggests that chronic, low-dose cyclic P- and E2-HRx stimulate cellular gluco- and lipo-metabolic cascades which compensate for the lack of leptin signaling in these single-gene, obese-Type II diabetic mutants. The compensatory endometabolic maintenance of utero-ovarian cellular and nuclear architecture suggests that the gluco- and lipo-metabolic disregulation may be therapeutically prevented or reversed, restoring reproductive tract cytointegrity and function, reducing the manifestation of hypogonadal reproductive sterility and db/db compromise of the female reproductive tract.
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- David R Garris
- Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5007 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
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Garris DR. Ovarian follicular lipoapoptosis: structural, cytochemical and metabolic basis of reproductive tract atrophy following expression of the hypogonadal diabetes (db/db) syndrome. Reprod Toxicol 2005; 20:31-8. [PMID: 15808783 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2004.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2004] [Revised: 10/22/2004] [Accepted: 12/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The diabetes (db/db) mutation (i.e., leptin membrane receptor defect) promotes a progressive, hypercytolipidemia within ovarian follicular granulosa, thecal and interstitial layers of C57BL/KsJ mice which manifests an infertile, acyclic hypogonadal syndrome. The current studies focus on the structural, cytochemical and gluco-/lipo-metabolic changes which induce cellular lipoapoptosis and the resulting cytostructural disruption of db/db follicular populations, relative to littermate control indices, following the expression of progressive ovarian hypercytolipidemia. Control (normal: +/+ and +/?) and diabetes (db/db) genotype groups were prepared for high resolution light microscopic (HRLM) analysis of cytolipidemia and nuclear apoptosis (TUNEL-labeled 3'-DNA fragmentation) indices and compared to the transmission electron (TEM) microscopic analysis of ovarian follicular samples collected from 8-16-week-old groups. Compared to controls, the db/db mutation induced a dramatic increase in cytolipid vacuole volume and density within all ovarian follicular layers. TEM analysis revealed that the lipid vacuoles initially aggregated along the inner membrane compartments of affected thecal and granulosa cells in response to the interstitial and vaso-lipidemic-hyperglycemic conditions which characterized the ovarian microenvironment of db/db follicles. Progressive cytoplasmic movement of lipid pools into the perinuclear compartment of affected granulosa cells induced nuclear isolation from cytoplasmic organelles that were displaced towards peripheral intracellular compartments. Cytochemical analysis of lipid vacuole accumulations indicated attraction towards, and incorporation within, the nuclear envelope of hyperlipidemic cells. Co-localization of nuclear apoptotic 3'-DNA fragments within identified hyperlipidemic granulosa cells was coincident with the cytochemical and ultrastructural identification of lipid penetration through the nuclear envelope in db/db mutants. These results are the first cytochemical evidence that the lipometabolic disturbances in db/db mutants, which promote hypercytolipidemia-induced premature ovarian involution, are coincident with lipoapoptosis-induced nuclear dissolution within follicular granulosa layers. The lipidemia-induced alterations in cellular and nuclear architecture suggests that the disturbances in glucose and lipid metabolic cascade activities in diabetes (db/db) mutants disrupts follicular cytointegrity, culminating in nuclear disregulation (as indicated by lipoapoptosis) which results in premature reproductive tract organo-involution and manifest reproductive sterility.
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- David R Garris
- Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5007 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
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Garris DR. Diabetes (db/db) mutation-induced endometrial epithelial lipoapoptosis: ultrastructural and cytochemical analysis of reproductive tract atrophy. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 2005; 3:15. [PMID: 15857516 PMCID: PMC1097758 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-3-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2005] [Accepted: 04/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The diabetes (db/db) mutation in C57BL/KsJ mice promotes a progressive cytolipidemia within the endometrial epithelial (EE) layer of the female reproductive tract which results in premature cellular and organ atrophy. The current studies focus on the ultrastructural and cytochemical changes which promote nuclear apoptosis and cytostructural disruption following the expression of endometrial hypercytolipidemia which promotes diabetes-associated organoinvolution and manifest infertility. METHODS Control (normal:+/+) and diabetes (db/db) genotype groups were prepared for high resolution light microscopic analysis of cytolipidemia and nuclear apoptosis (TUNEL-labeled 3'-DNA fragmentation) indices and compared to the transmission electron (TEM) microscopic analysis of endometrial tissue samples collected from 8-16 week-old groups. RESULTS Compared to controls, db/db mutation expression induced a dramatic increase in EE cytolipid vacuole volume and density within the epithelial endometrial layer. TEM analysis revealed that cytolipid vacuole accumulations initially aggregated at the baso-polar regions of UEE cells in response to the systemic hyperglycemic/hypertriglyceridemic conditions which characterized the (db/db) groups. Progressive cytoplasmic movement of the lipid pools into perinuclear compartments of affected EE cells induced nuclear isolation from organelles that were displaced towards peripheral cytoplasmic compartments. Cytochemical analysis of lipid vacuole accumulations indicated attraction towards, and incorporation within, the nuclear envelope of hyperlipidemic cells. Co-localization of nuclear apoptotic 3'-DNA fragments within identified hyperlipidemic EE cells was coincident with the cytochemical and ultrastructural identification of lipid penetration through the nuclear envelope in db/db mutants. CONCLUSION These results are the first cytochemical indication that the metabolic disturbances in db/db mutants which promote hypercytolipidemia are coincident with lipoapoptosis-induced nuclear dissolution, as denoted by DNA fragmentation analysis. The lipidemia-induced alterations in intracellular organelle and nuclear architectures suggests that the metabolic disturbances in glucose and lipid metabolic cascades in diabetes (db/db) mutants disrupts cytointegrity, culminating in nuclear disregulation (as indicated by lipoapoptosis) and eventual premature reproductive tract organoinvolution and resultant, manifest, reproductive sterility.
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- David R Garris
- Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA.
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