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Hospital time prior to death and pancreas histopathology: implications for future studies.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Diabetes research studies routinely rely upon the use of tissue samples from human organ donors. It remains unclear whether the length of hospital stay prior to organ donation affects the presence of cells infiltrating the pancreas or the frequency of replicating beta cells.

Methods

To address this, 39 organ donors without diabetes were matched for age, sex, BMI and ethnicity in groups of three. Within each group, donors varied by length of hospital stay immediately prior to organ donation (<3 days, 3 to <6 days, or ≥6 days). Serial sections from tissue blocks in the pancreas head, body and tail regions were immunohistochemically double stained for insulin and CD45, CD68, or Ki67. Slides were electronically scanned and quantitatively analysed for cell positivity.

Results

No differences in CD45⁺, CD68⁺, insulin⁺, Ki67⁺ or Ki67⁺/insulin⁺ cell frequencies were found when donors were grouped according to duration of hospital stay. Likewise, no interactions were observed between hospitalisation group and pancreas region, age, or both; however, with Ki67 staining, cell frequencies were greater in the body vs the tail region of the pancreas (∆ 0.65 [unadjusted 95% CI 0.25, 1.04]; p = 0.002) from donors <12 year of age. Interestingly, frequencies were less in the body vs tail region of the pancreas for both CD45⁺ cells (∆ -0.91 [95% CI -1.71, -0.10]; p = 0.024) and insulin⁺ cells (∆ -0.72 [95% CI -1.10, -0.34]; p < 0.001).

Conclusions/interpretation

This study suggests that immune or replicating beta cell frequencies are not affected by the length of hospital stay prior to donor death in pancreases used for research.

Data availability

All referenced macros (adopted and developed), calculations, programming code and numerical dataset files (including individual-level donor data) are freely available on GitHub through Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034422.

SUBMITTER: Kusmartseva I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5844815 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hospital time prior to death and pancreas histopathology: implications for future studies.

Kusmartseva Irina I Beery Maria M Philips Tiffany T Selman Stephen S Jadhav Priyanka P Wasserfall Clive C Muller Axel A Pugliese Alberto A Longmate Jeffrey A JA Schatz Desmond A DA Atkinson Mark A MA Kaddis John S JS

Diabetologia 20171111 4

<h4>Aims/hypothesis</h4>Diabetes research studies routinely rely upon the use of tissue samples from human organ donors. It remains unclear whether the length of hospital stay prior to organ donation affects the presence of cells infiltrating the pancreas or the frequency of replicating beta cells.<h4>Methods</h4>To address this, 39 organ donors without diabetes were matched for age, sex, BMI and ethnicity in groups of three. Within each group, donors varied by length of hospital stay immediatel ...[more]

PMID: 29128936

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