Summary
The Reg/pancreatic stone protein (PSP) gene is postulated to be an important regulator of pancreatic beta-cell growth. To investigate this hypothesis, we analysed the expression of the Reg/PSP gene following a 90% pancreatectomy and after chronic glucose infusion, two well-defined models of pancreatic beta-cell growth. There was a rapid induction of the Reg/PSP gene in the remnant pancreas after a 90% pancreatectomy in rats during the period of marked growth of the exocrine and islet tissue. However, a similar rapid, but smaller, induction of the Reg/PSP gene was observed in sham-operated rats and in non-surgical control rats in which there was no enhanced pancreatic growth. Furthermore, there was no pancreatic Reg/PSP gene induction in a model of selective beta-cell growth, the chronic glucose-infused rat. Thus, it is unlikely that Reg/PSP is a beta-cell specific growth factor, even though the function of this important pancreatic gene is still unknown.
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Abbreviations
- Px:
-
Partial pancreatectomy
- PSP:
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pancreatic stone protein
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Smith, F.E., Bonner-Weir, S., Leahy, J.L. et al. Pancreatic Reg/pancreatic stone protein (PSP) gene expression does not correlate with beta-cell growth and regeneration in rats. Diabetologia 37, 994–999 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00400462
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