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Effect of pancreas allografts on the ultrastructure of sciatic nerves in diabetic Rats

✍ Scribed by Michael H. Scott; Dr. Sun Lee; Milbhor D'Silva; Cheng-Ming Chang; Jennifer Allen; Diane Yancey; A. R. Moossa

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
1022 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0738-1085

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Abstract

In a long‐term study using cyclosporin‐A (Cy‐A) as immunosuppressant in a dose of 10 mg/kg/day, pancreas‐duodenum was transplanted from Brown Norway donors to alloxan‐diabetic Lewis rats (n = 190). The pancreas transplants (PT) were performed after 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 months of diabetes. Recipient rats were sacrificed between 3 and 12 months of graft retainment. The mean axonal cross‐sectional area and relative percentage of small, medium, and large myelinated fibers was evaluated. Also studied were unmyelinated fiber, ovoid body, and glycogen inclusion densities. Control rats consisted of non‐diabetic rats (n = 36), similar rats receiving Cy‐A (n = 42), diabetic rats (n = 103), and diabetic rats receiving Cy‐A (n = 45). It was found that PT had a beneficial effect on the axonal cross‐sectional area of myelinated nerves, the relative percentage of the various sizes of nerve fibers, and the ovoid body density, especially so in early diabetes. The effects in late diabetes were less spectacular. PT did not prove beneficial to the glycogen inclusion and unmyelinated fiber densities.

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