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Development of spontaneous diabetes has been monitored in individual Macaca nigra. In this study, pancreatic biopsies were taken, islets were assessed morphologically, and results were related to the metabolic/clinical status. A biopsy or autopsy sample was obtained 4 to 10 years later, and the islet morphological state was again related to the metabolic/clinical status. Metabolic deterioration was correlated to the islet lesion, in which there was gradual loss of islet secretory cells and concurrent amyloid deposition. As nondiabetic monkeys with 0 to 3% islet amyloid progressed up to 20 to 40% amyloid, the insulin secretion and glucose clearance were both decreased (p<0.01), and the glucose and glucagon levels increased (p=0.05). Impaired monkeys progressed to overt diabetes when islet amyloid exceeded 50 to 60%. Diabetic monkeys developed hyperglycaemia, along with impaired insulin secretion and glucose clearance (p<0.04). Loss of islet cells results in metabolic deterioration. The lesion precedes development of overt diabetes in Macaca nigra.
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Howard, C.F. Longitudinal studies on the development of diabetes in individual Macaca nigra . Diabetologia 29, 301–306 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00452067
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