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Markers of immune-mediated inflammation in the brains of young adults and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and fatal diabetic ketoacidosis. Is there a difference?
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Markers of immune-mediated inflammation in the brains of young adults and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and fatal diabetic ketoacidosis. Is there a difference?

William H. Hoffman, Carol M. Artlett, Dallas Boodhoo, Mary G.F. Gilliland, Luis Ortiz, Dries Mulder, David H.T. Tjan, Alvaro Martin, Alexandru Tatomir and Horea Rus
Experimental and molecular pathology, v 102(3), pp 505-514
Jun 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yexmp.2017.05.013
PMID: 28533125
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Abstract

Brain edema C5b-9 Diabetic ketoacidosis Neuroinflammation Receptor for advanced glycation end products Type 1 diabetes
Due to the limited data on diabetic ketoacidosis and brain edema (DKA/BE) in children/adolescents and the lack of recent data on adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D), we addressed the question of whether neuroinflammation was present in the fatal DKA of adults. We performed immunohistochemistry (IHC) studies on the brains of two young adults with T1D and fatal DKA and compared them with two teenagers with poorly controlled diabetes and fatal DKA. C5b-9, the membrane attack complex (MAC) had significantly greater deposits in the grey and white matter of the teenagers than the young adults (p=0.03). CD59, a MAC assembly inhibitory protein was absent, possibly suppressed by the hyperglycemia in the teenagers but was expressed in the young adults despite comparable average levels of hyperglycemia. The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) had an average expression in the young adults significantly greater than in the teenagers (p=0.02). The autophagy marker Light Chain 3 (LC3) A/B was the predominant form of programmed cell death (PCD) in the teenage brains. The young adults had high expressions of both LC3A/B and TUNEL, an apoptotic cell marker for DNA fragmentation. BE was present in the newly diagnosed young adult with hyperglycemic hyperosmolar DKA and also in the two teenagers. Our data indicate that significant differences in neuroinflammatory components, initiated by the dysregulation of DKA and interrelated metabolic and immunologic milieu, are likely present in the brains of fatal DKA of teenagers when compared with young adults. [Display omitted] •Neuroinflammation occurs in young adults with fatal DKA/without BE and in hyperglycemic, hyperosmolar DKA with BE.•C5b-9 deposits are more pronounced in the gray and white matter of children/adolescents than in young adults with fatal DKA.•CD59 is expressed more in the brains of young adults than in children/adolescents with fatal DKA/BE.•RAGE has increased expression in a young treated adult with DKA/BE compared to an untreated young adult with DKA/without BE.•In contrast to children/adolescents both TUNEL and LC3A/B are present in young adults with and without fatal DKA/BE.

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