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In a mediastinal teratoma containing pancreatic tissue rich in islet cells, immunofluorescence studies showed a high degree of differentiation of the endocrine tissue. Insulin-, glucagon-, somatostatin-, and pancreatic polypeptide(PP)-containing cells were all consistently represented. They showed the same precise topographic distribution that is seen in normal islets (i.e., a central core of insulin-containing cells with the other cell types in a peripheral position) and that is thought to be important for the integrated function of the islets. This may explain the absence of clinical symptoms of hypoglycemia. In addition, a nonrandom distribution of endocrine cell types, with PP-rich and PP-poor areas, similar to that found in pancreatic regions embryologically derived from the ventral and dorsal anlagen, respectively, was observed. This finding suggests that the unknown mechanisms responsible for the dissimilar endocrine cell contents in pancreatic regions of different embryologic origins were operating in the teratoma.
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PMID:Full pancreatic endocrine differentiation in a mediastinal teratoma. 286 11

A rare ovarian mixed germ cell tumor containing pancreatic tissue with islet cells was reported. The tumor, weighing 4,500 g, arose in the left ovary of a 29-year-old nulliparous unmarried woman. On section, the tumor was largely solid, but with small- to medium-sized multiple cysts which contained mucinous fluid. Microscopically, the tumor was composed predominantly of immature pancreatic tissue with islet cells budding from the glandular structures, where a few aldehyde-fuchsin-positive cells and some argyrophil cells were seen. Also, insulin-, glucagon-, or somatostatin-reactive cells were localized in these structures by immunohistochemistry. Multiple cysts were covered by a monolayer of benign-looking mucinous epithelium. The tumor contained elements of dysgerminoma, endodermal sinus tumor, immature teratoma, and mucinous adenocarcinoma as minor components. Two years after the surgery followed by chemotherapy with vincristine, actinomycin D, and cyclophosphamide, the patient became pregnant and delivered a healthy female infant.
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PMID:A rare malignant ovarian mixed germ cell tumor containing pancreatic tissue with islet cells. 609 90

Differentiated teratomas frequently contain the apparent equivalent of gastrointestinal mucosa. 53 testicular teratomas were investigated for the incidence of entero-endocrine cells. Enterochromaffin(EC)-cells were demonstrated by formaldehyde induced fluorescence (FIF), while the other endocrine cells were identified by immunohistochemistry. 11 of 53 teratomas contained endocrine cells associated with the gastrointestinal epithelium. The most frequently found cell type was the EC-cell, followed by somatostatin-, glucagon- and pancreatic polypeptide-immunoreactive cells. The teratoma tissue blocks (20 of 53) also frequently exhibited normal testicular tissue which did not contain any EC-cell or other entero-endocrine cells. The results are of interest in considering the cytogenesis of entero-endocrine cells and the histogenesis of testicular carcinoids, indicating that the entero-endocrine cells derive from the intestinal carcinoids, indicating that the entero-endocrine cells derive from the intestinal epithelium arising from undifferentiated stem cells. Furthermore, it seems probable that primary testicular carcinoids can develop from pre-existent teratomas by proliferation of their entero-endocrine cells.
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PMID:Endocrine GEP-cells in primary testicular teratoma. 610 1

Four cases of benign cystic mediastinal teratoma containing pancreatic tissue have been studied using immunohistochemical and morphometric techniques. The different pancreatic endocrine cell types were stained using antibodies to insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide, and the volume density of each cell type was estimated by point counting. Sections from different regions of the normal adult pancreas were also examined and the results compared. There was an increased total volume density of endocrine cells in the teratomatous pancreas, with a pronounced increase in the proportion of somatostatin containing D cells. The results are similar to those described for pancreatic tissue in neonates, and it is suggested that this is further evidence of altered functional differentiation of the pancreatic tissue found in teratomas.
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PMID:Pancreatic endocrine tissue in benign mediastinal teratoma. 614 36

Intracardiac teratoma is an extremely rare pediatric neoplasm. We studied the case of a 6-year-old girl with a right intraventricular cardiac mass. The tumor consisted of clusters of monotonous round epithelial cells scattered in a dense fibrotic stroma and was thought to represent an atrioventricular nodal tumor. Three years later the tumor recurred, with multiple mature elements derived from all three germ layers, and was diagnosed as mature cystic teratoma. Still present, however, were multiple areas that were histologically similar to the earlier lesion. Immunostaining revealed strong positivity for insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and chromogranin consistent with overgrown pancreatic islets of Langerhans within a mature teratoma.
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PMID:Intracardiac teratoma in a child simulating an atrioventricular nodal tumor. 785 10

We reported a boy with panhypopituitarism after removal of a suprasellar teratoma and pituitary stalk transection at the age of 3 months. His growth was accelerated after 5 years of age without growth hormone (GH) therapy, although he had poor height growth until age 4 under treatment with hydrocortisone, levothyroxine sodium, and desamino-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP). Hyperphagia and obesity developed after surgery. Endocrinological examination revealed no GH response to glucagon, low serum levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3). Serum prolactin was normal, but serum insulin was high. Some patients who received an operation for craniopharyngioma were reported to achieve normal growth without GH secretion, but the mechanism is still unknown. High serum levels of prolactin or insulin can be associated with normal IGF in GH deficient patients. This patient had obesity and high serum insulin, which may be related to growth without GH secretion.
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PMID:A boy with normal growth in spite of growth hormone deficiency after resection of a suprasellar teratoma. 1089 Jan 95

Intrapericardial teratoma was diagnosed in a nine-year-old male infant with a three-month history of labored breathing and cough. The tumor was completely resected and found to be a mature teratoma, containing pancreatic tissue and producing insulin. A few glucagon and somatostatin containing cells were also present in the periphery of the islets. Postoperative course was uneventful. This is to our knowledge, the first report of an intrapericardial teratoma with such endocrine activity.
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PMID:An intrapericardial teratoma with endocrine function. 1169 46

A 54-year-old woman presented with extremely fluctuating and symptomatic blood glucose levels. Very high levels of somatostatin and low levels of insulin, C-peptide, gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP), and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in peripheral blood were constantly present. A benign somatostatinoma was localized by meta-iodobenzyl guanidine iodine 123 (MIBG-I(123)) scintigraphy and successfully removed encapsulated in an ovarian teratoma. The patient made a complete recovery. The case described is unique with regard to clinical symptomatology and anatomic localization of the tumor.
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PMID:Case report: somatostatin producing teratoma, causing rapidly alternating extreme hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, and ovarian somatostatinoma. 1220 Jul 64

Insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells play a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. Potential new treatments for this disease include cell-replacement therapies using embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We have generated ESCs from a transgenic mouse model, mouse insulin 1 promoter (MIP) green fluorescent protein (GFP) mice, in which embryonic and adult beta cells are genetically tagged with GFP. The aim of the present study is to examine the differentiation potential of MIP-GFP ESCs in the microenvironment of the kidney capsule. The ESCs grew rapidly and formed a teratoma with GFP-expressing beta-like cells present in clusters that formed a cord-like structure similar to what is seen in the embryonic pancreas. These structures also included glucagon-expressing alpha cells and amylase-expressing acinar cells. Electron microscopic analysis showed insulin-like granules in columnar epithelium with microvilli adjacent to exocrine-like granule-containing cells. The MIP-GFP ESCs should be a useful research tool to study the differentiation capacity of ESCs toward pancreatic lineages.
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PMID:Generation of embryonic stem cells from mouse insulin I promoter-green fluorescent protein transgenic mice and characterization in a teratoma model. 1885 79

The in vitro and in vivo differentiation features of the monoclonal human pancreatic stem cell (mhPSC) line derived from the pancreatic tissues of a male abortive fetus at 4 month-old were studied. The mhPSCs were plated in culture dishes that had been coated with 0.1% gelatin in phosphate-buffered saline without calcium and magnesium. After proliferated for 3 days, the mhPSCs were induced in modified high-glucose Dulbecco's Modified Eagles's Medium for 25 days. The changes of the cell morphology were observed by phasecontrast microscope during inducement course. The results of the mhPSCs in vitro induced to differentiate into functional pancreatic islets were identified using dithizone staining, RT-PCR and stimulation-glucose secreting insulin and C-peptide radioimmunoassay. The mhPSCs suspension was separately injected under the groin hypoderm of male nude mice. On the 30th day, the grafts were taken off. The immunochemistry reactions were performed by the SP method. The in vivo differentiation ability of the mhPSCs in nude mice was assessed. In vitro proliferation culture, the mhPSCs adhesively grew and showed polygon epithelioid morphology. After proliferation a layer, the mhPSCs showed the gravelstone-like. During in vitro directional inducement, the mhPSCs gradually turned from polygon to round, suspended to grow and assembled pancreatic islets-like clusters. On the 15th inducement day, only a few cells of pancreatic islet-like clusters were induced into the beta cells that became crimson with dithizone staining. However, till the 25th inducement day, most cells of pancreatic islet-like clusters had differentiated into the beta cells, as identified by dithizone staining, which expressed transcription factor of insulin. Respectively stimulated with different concentration glucose, the induced pancreatic islets not only secreted insulin and C-peptide, but also the secretion volumes of the insulin and C-peptide were markedly increased after the stimulation with higher concentration glucose (0.01<P<0.05). In the in vivo differentiation experiment, all nude mice which were injected by the mhPSCs displayed a teratoma-like with white color and rich blood vessels. Immunohistochemistry showed that the teratoma-like expressed the proteins of the pdx1, insulin, glucagon, CK, MBP and NF. This indicated that the mhPSCs not only could be in vitro induced into functional islet-like clusters, but also could in vivo differentiate into the pancreatic islets, epithelium and neural cells.
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PMID:[Research on differentiation features of the monoclonal human pancreatic stem cell]. 1913 17


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