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Hypophyseal Lipoapoptosis: Diabetes (db/db) Mutation-Associated Cytolipidemia Promotes Pituitary Cellular Disruption and Dysfunction

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Expression of the diabetes (db/db) mutation in C57BL/KsJ mice suppresses the female pituitary-gonadal axis via progressive cytolipidemic disruption of hypophyseal gonadotropin release, culminating in premature involution of the reproductive tract and manifest infertility. The current studies define the systemic, endocrine, cytochemical and structural apoptotic changes that result from pituitary hypercytolipidemia induced by db/db mutation expression in this Type II diabetes-obesity syndrome (DOS) model. Adult female C57BL/KsJ control (+/?; genotype) and db/db littermates were monitored for systemic and cellular alterations in LH-, FSH- and gonadal steroid-secretion, and coincident pituitary apoptosis, as indexed by TUNEL labeled 3′ nuclear DNA-fragmentation, associated with cytolipid depositions. Obesity, hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia characterized all db/db-mutants relative to +/?; groups. Serum progesterone (P) and estradiol (E2) concentrations were suppressed in db/db mutants coincident with decreased plasma LH and FSH concentrations relative to +/?; values. Cytochemical analysis of anterior (AP) pituitary cell subtypes indicated that db/db mutants demonstrated prominent hypercytolipidemia relative to +/?; pituitary cytoarchitecture. Cytolipidemic vacuoles were localized within protein vesiculateddb/db hypophyseal basophilic and acidophilic cell populations. Hypophyseal cytoadiposity in db/db AP cells was co-localized with prominent cellular apoptotic TUNEL labeling of nuclear 3′-DNA fragments in cells demonstrating vesicular depopulation and cytolytic vacuolization. These data represent the first demonstration of co-localized hypercytolipidemic and cytoapoptotic disruptive events occurring concurrently in a hypopituitary-hypogonadal syndrome model following expression of the Type II (NIDDM) diabetes-obesity syndrome in db/db-mutants. The coincident and progressive vascular-, interstitial- and cyto-lipidemic alterations in hypophyseal cytoarchitecture correlated with the concurrent apoptotic disruption of pituitary endocrine cytoarchitecture and supressed gonadal steroid synthesis, influences which collectively contribute to the premature involution of the pituitary-gonadal axis in C57BL/KsJ-db/db mice.

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  1. Divisions of Cell Biology and Biophysics and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA

    Bryan L. Garris

  2. Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA

    Lesya Novikova & Y.-S. Lau

  3. Divisions of Cell Biology and Biophysics and Schools of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA

    David R. Garris

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Garris, B.L., Novikova, L., Lau, YS. et al. Hypophyseal Lipoapoptosis: Diabetes (db/db) Mutation-Associated Cytolipidemia Promotes Pituitary Cellular Disruption and Dysfunction. Pituitary 7, 5–14 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PITU.0000044628.84041.99

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