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Fasting-Mimicking Diet Promotes Ngn3-Driven β-Cell Regeneration to Reverse Diabetes

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#1 Chupo

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Posted 02 March 2018 - 02:42 AM


 

Highlights
  • Fasting mimicking diet induces prenatal-development gene expression in adult pancreas

  • FMD promotes Ngn3 expression to generate insulin-producing β cells

  • Cycles of FMD reverse β-cell failure and rescue mice from T1D and T2D

  • Inhibition of PKA or mTOR promotes Ngn3-driven β-cell regeneration in human T1D islets

  Summary

Stem-cell-based therapies can potentially reverse organ dysfunction and diseases, but the removal of impaired tissue and activation of a program leading to organ regeneration pose major challenges. In mice, a 4-day fasting mimicking diet (FMD) induces a stepwise expression of Sox17 and Pdx-1, followed by Ngn3-driven generation of insulin-producing β cells, resembling that observed during pancreatic development. FMD cycles restore insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis in both type 2 and type 1 diabetes mouse models. In human type 1 diabetes pancreatic islets, fasting conditions reduce PKA and mTOR activity and induce Sox2 and Ngn3 expression and insulin production. The effects of the FMD are reversed by IGF-1 treatment and recapitulated by PKA and mTOR inhibition. These results indicate that a FMD promotes the reprogramming of pancreatic cells to restore insulin generation in islets from T1D patients and reverse both T1D and T2D phenotypes in mouse models.

 

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#2 tunt01

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Posted 02 March 2018 - 02:47 AM

This is really a great paper.  I think it was already discussed elsewhere.  And I don't believe the T1D model here.  But the T2D and the mechanism of regeneration here is fantastic.



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