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Total Authors: 3
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Campinas Unicamp, Dept Struct & Funct Biol, Inst Biol, BR-13083862 Campinas, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Cytometry Part A; v. 81A, n. 9, p. 755-764, SEP 2012. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 15 |
| Abstract | |
Changes in polyploidization, chromatin supraorganization, and chromatin accessibility were investigated in hepatocytes collected from adult, nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with increasing hyperglycemia and compared with adult normoglycemic controls and 56-week-old normoglycemic BALB/c mice. Our goal was to determine the changes in ploidy degrees and chromatin characteristics in mouse hepatocytes that are associated with insulin-dependent diabetes and to detect similarities in these aspects with those verified with aging, with greater accuracy than previous studies. Image analysis of Feulgen-stained nuclei revealed changes in ploidy degrees and chromatin supraorganization. Chromatin accessibility was assessed with micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion. Increased polyploidy was associated with increasing levels of glycemia, and this trend toward polyploidy was found even under normoglycemic conditions in NOD mice. Although high degrees of ploidy were also detected in aged BALB/c mice, the magnitude of polyploidy was not the same magnitude as that in the diabetic mice. While there was increased homogeneity of chromatin packaging with increasing polyploidy under conditions of severe hyperglycemia (and even under conditions of normoglycemia) in NOD mice, an inverse relationship was observed in aged BALB/c mice. Chromatin accessibility to MNase increased under severe hyperglycemia and advanced age, but it was much higher in the diabetic mice. In conclusion, although similarities in polyploidy were observed between the hepatocytes from increasingly hyperglycemic adult mice and those from normoglycemic aged mice, the relationship between chromatin remodeling and increases in ploidy degrees was not the same between the hepatocytes of these two groups. These findings demonstrate that strict similarities between diabetes and aging are not always true at the cellular level. This discordance is likely due to differences in the metabolic state of mouse hepatocytes during aging and diabetic conditions consequent to specificities in their gene regulatory programs. (C) 2012 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/50015-6 - Chromatin structure and organization with aging and diabetes compared to induced changes in epigenetic markers |
| Grantee: | Maria Luiza Silveira Mello |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |