Development of a Novel Polygenic Model of NIDDM in Mice Heterozygous for IR and IRS-1 Null Alleles

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JC Brüning，J Winnay，S Bonner-Weir，SI Taylor，D Accili，CR Kahn

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NIDDM is a polygenic disease characterized by insulin resistance in muscle, fat, and liver, followed by a failure of pancreatic β cells to adequately compensate for this resistance despite increased insulin secretion. Mice double heterozygous for null alleles in the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate-1 genes exhibit the expected 50% reduction in expression of these two proteins, but a synergism at a level of insulin resistance with 5- to 50-fold elevated plasma insulin levels and comparable levels of β cell hyperplasia. At 4–6 months of age, 40% of these double heterozygotes become overtly diabetic. This NIDDM mouse model in which diabetes arises in an age-dependent manner from the interaction between two genetically determined, subclinical defects in the insulin signaling cascade demonstrates the role of epistatic interactions in the pathogenesis of common diseases with non-Mendelian genetics.

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Muscles Liver Islets of Langerhans Animals Mice, Inbred C57BL Mice, Knockout Mice Diabetic Ketoacidosis Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Hyperinsulinism