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Query: EC:3.4.21.4 (trypsin)
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Islets of Langerhans were isolated from mouse pancreases and fixed in periodatelysine-paraformaldehyde. The fixed islets were then dissociated with trypsin and EDTA to yield cell suspensions that contained mainly four cell types; beta-cells, capillary endothelial cells, acinar cells, and pancreatic duct epithelial cells. The nonislet cells were probably associated wtih the surface of the isolated islets. The H-2 antigens of the dissociated pancreatic cells were labeled with an immunoferritin technique. Pancreatic duct epithelial cells showed specific ferritin labeling on their lateral cell membranes but not on apical microvillus membranes. Acinar cells were also labeled on lateral membranes, and the capillary endothelial cells were labeled on both the luminal and albuminal aspects of their surface membranes. In contrast, pancreatic beta-cells were unlabeled. The number of ferritin molecules per unit length of beta-cell membrane was essentially the same on cells from the antigenic strain and the congeneic control strain, and was about 200-fold less than on the labeled pancreatic duct epithelial cell lateral membranes. Pancreatic beta-cells are therefore one of six known epithelial cell types on which H-2 antigens can not be detected by immunoferritin labeling. The apparent absence of H-2 antigens from these cells suggests a study of the viability of beta-cells in allografts of dissociated islet cells, in which the beta-cell would not be in contact with antigenic cells. Such studies might lead to a new approach to the control of diabetes mellitus by transplantation.
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PMID:The absence of H-2 antigens from mouse pancreatic beta-cells demonstrated by immunoferritin labeling. 10 71

Normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats have been maintained for 6--11 months on completely balanced, reconstituted diets in which the sole source of carbohydrate was either 68% corn starch or 68% sucrose. The retinal vascular system was isolated by trypsin digestion and examined histologically for the presence of tortuosity and irregularity of capillary diameter, increased PAS-positive deposits, microaneurysms, loss of pericytes, endothelial proliferation, acellularity and strand formation. None of these pathological changes occurred in normal rats fed a starch-rich diet, but all developed to a similar extent in the sucrose-fed normal rats and the starch-fed diabetic group. The changes were more severe in sucrose-fed diabetic rats after 6 months. In all groups the retinopathy progressed with time. The possibility that a factor common to both the ingestion of a sucrose-rich diet and streptozotocin diabetes in rats has been considered since, histologically, the retinopathy observed was identical both with respect to severity and rate of development in normoglycaemia, sucrose-fed and hyperglycaemia, starch-fed diabetic rats.
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PMID:The development of retinopathy in sucrose-fed and streptozotocin-diabetic rats. 13 21

Isolated frt cells and purified subcellular fractions of fat cells have been shown to degrade insulin to biologically inactive trichloroacetic-acid-soluble fragments. Further study of this activity has revealed the following characteristics: 1 Most of the insulin-degrading enzymes are intracellular, inaccessible to insulin or trypsin when fat cells are intact. More that 90 per cent of the recovered activity is found in the high-speed supernatant (cytosol) when cell fractionation studies are performed. 2. The plasma membrane contains significant insulin-degradative capacity, as shown by tryptic digestion of intact cells and cell fractionation. 3. The pH optimum of the cell-membrane insulin-degrading site is more acid than that of the cytosol activity, but the tow enzyme systems are similar with regard to substrate specificity, response to metabolic inhibitors, and elution volume of degradation products on gel filtration. 4. The plasma-membrane-degrading activity differs from the specific insulin-binding site with regard to saturation kinetics, optimum temperature, substrate specificity, sensitivity to sulfhydryl-blocking agents, and trypsin snesitivity.
Diabetes 1975 Nov
PMID:Insulin degradation by isolated fat cells and their subcellular fractions. 24 73

Plasma concentrations of immune-reactive trypsin (IRT) were determined in 212 patients with juvenile-onset, insulin-dependent diabetes (Type I) and in 158 patients with maturity onset diabetes (Type II) in comparison to 121 healthy individuals. Significantly increased IRT levels were obtained in the type I diabetics, whereas IRT concentrations were normal or increased in the type II diabetic patients. Hypotrypsinemia occurred predominantly in type I diabetics with high IgG-insulin antibodies or islet-cell antibodies. No correlation was noted between the IRT-levels and the beta-cell residual capacity in the type-I diabetics.
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PMID:[Hypotrypsinemia in diabetes mellitus]. 29 41

Complamine (xanthinol-nicotinate) injected intravenously in a dose of 300 mg caused in patients with diabetes mellitus a significant, although short-lived improvement of the indices of intrahepatic circulation (by the rheohepatographic criteria). By itself complamine failed to influence the pancreatic secretion of amylase, lipase, and trypsin, but regularly intensified the stimulating action of pancreosimine on the pancreatic secretion of the enzymes in the patients with diabetes. In addition to the known influence of complamine on the circulation in the lower limbs of the patients with diabetes mellitus, information presented in the given work widened the circle of indications to the therapeutic use of complamine in patients with diabetes mellitus with disturbances of intrahepatic hemodynamics and the enzyme-secretory insufficiency of the pancreas. Complamine should be administered after meals at the period of the greatest release of the endogenous pancreosimine, for the intensification of the pancreatic enzymes secretion.
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PMID:[Effect of Complamin on the intrahepatic blood flow and pancreatic secretion of enzymes in diabetes mellitus]. 34 35

Insulin encapsulated in liposomes of various lipid compositions were prepared. The amount of insulin trapped in these liposomes increased in the order, negatively charged liposomes less than neutral liposomes less than positively charged liposomes. In positively charged liposomes, the amount of insulin trapped increased with increase in the amount of amphiphile stearylamine. Under the conditions tested, the highest insulin content (about 50%) was obtained with liposomes composed of phosphatidyl choline/cholesterol/stearylamine in a molar ratio of 7/2/2.25. These liposomes were stable on incubation for 3 hr at 37 degrees C in solutions of pepsin, trypsin, and pancreatin, and after these incubations, a considerable amount of insulin was still associated with the liposomes. However, the liposomes released almost all the insulin into the medium on treatment with bile. When the liposomes were administered orally to rats in the 3rd phase of acute alloxan diabetes, reduction of the blood glucose level was observed in 7 of 11 animals, the reduction persisted for several hours and was ranging from 30 to 75%. In alloxan diabetic rats showing hyperglycemia for 3 to 6 months, the liposomes also increased the glucose tolerance in half the animals tested.
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PMID:Effects of oral administration of positively charged insulin liposomes on alloxan diabetic rats: preliminary study. 47 21

Serum immunoreactive trypsin (SIT) concentrations were measured in 244 patients with infectious illnesses and in 281 children with diabetes of recent onset. Results were compared with reference ranges established in 107 patients with non-infectious, non-diabetic illnesses, in whom SIT concentrations were found to increase with advancing age. Reduced or undetectable concentrations of SIT were associated with diabetes in children and with a few cases of severe childhood infection. Increased SIT concentrations were associated with virologically confirmed cases of infection with mumps and Coxsackie B virus infection, and with clinical diagnoses of mumps, PUO, and meningitis in children, and with Bornholm disease, cardiac infection, and respiratory infection in adults. It is suggested that silent invasion of the exocrine pancreas with elevation of the SIT concentration may accompany infection by Coxsackie B, mumps, and, possibly, other viruses.
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PMID:Serum immunoreactive trypsin concentrations in infectious and non-infectious illnesses and in juvenile diabetes. 51 51

This review describes the development and application of a novel test to determine levels of human immunoreactive trypsin, an enzyme produced solely by the pancreas, in biological fluids. Being organ-specific, the assay of immunoreactive trypsin should be an ideal marker of pancreatic function, and this is supported by the results of a number of clinical and research investigations. Use of this assay in studies of chronic pancreatitis, juvenile-onset diabetes, and cystic fibrosis has yielded much valuable data, and it is expected that further research will lead to an improved understanding of these and other conditions associated with the pancreas in health and disease.
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PMID:Radioimmunoassay of trypsin. A new aid in the assessment of pancreatic function. 51 80

Under conditions of stimulation with pancreozymine (in doses of 1.5 and 0.5 Units/kg), a specific stimulant of the enzyme secretion of the pancreas, there occurred a significant fall of the concentration and of the amount of lipase and trypsin in the duodenal contents of patients suffering from diabetes mellitus for over 5 years (20 investigations) in comparison with the indices in 14 healthy persons. No disturbances of amylase secretion were found in diabetes. Proceeding from the evidence on the role played by calcium and cyclic 3'--5'-adenosinmonophosphate in the regulation of the external pancreatic secretion the effect of calcium gluconate and euphylline was tested; they appeared to be effective stimulants of pancreatic secretion of the enzymes in patients with diabetes mellitus.
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PMID:[Use of pancreozymin for detection of pancreatic enzyme-secreting insufficiency in diabetic patients and selection of methods of treatment]. 93 82

A patient with adult-onset diabetes mellitus was referred with a diagnosis of malignant melanoma of the choroid of the left eye. A nonproliferative type of diabetic retinopathy was present, which was studied and documented by stereoscopic fundus photographs and fluorescein angiograms. Following enucleation, the microangiopathies were correlated histologically, using the retinal trypsin digest technique. Four types of microaneurysms were seen histologically that were believed to represent stages in the development of this lesion. Most thin-walled aneurysms tightly packed with erythrocytes did not fluoresce. Aneurysms that were hypercellular and those with thick walls showed early and late fluorescence. Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities were hypercellular dilated channels. Those that take origin from terminal arterioles are believed to represent attempts at neovascularization.
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PMID:Clinicopathologic correlations in diabetic retinopathy. I. Histology and fluorescein angiography of microaneurysms. 97 22


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