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  • Title: Heat shock inhibits cytokine-induced nitric oxide synthase expression by rat and human islets.
    Author: Scarim AL, Heitmeier MR, Corbett JA.
    Journal: Endocrinology; 1998 Dec; 139(12):5050-7. PubMed ID: 9832444.
    Abstract:
    In this study the effects of heat shock on interleukin-1beta (IL-1)-induced inhibition of islet metabolic function were examined. Treatment of rat islets for 18 h with IL-1 results in a potent inhibition of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. The inhibitory effects of IL-1 on insulin secretion are completely prevented if islets are pretreated for 60 min at 42 C before cytokine stimulation. Heat shock also prevents IL-1-induced inhibition of insulinoma RINm5F cell mitochondrial aconitase activity. The protective effects of heat shock on islet metabolic function are associated with the inhibition of IL-1-stimulated inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS or NOS II) expression. Islets heat shocked for 60 min at 42 C fail to express iNOS (messenger RNA or protein) or produce nitrite in response to IL-1. IL-1-induced iNOS expression by rat islets requires activation of the transcriptional regulator nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB). Heat shock prevents IL-1-induced NF-kappaB nuclear localization by inhibiting inhibitory protein kappaB (IkappaB) degradation in rat islets. Similar to rat islets, heat shock (stimulated by 90 min incubation at 42 C) prevents IL-1 + interferon gamma-induced iNOS expression and NF-kappaB nuclear localization in human islets. IL-1 also stimulates heat-shock protein 70 (hsp 70) expression by rat islets, and hsp 70 expression is dependent on islet production of nitric oxide. Last, evidence is presented that implicates nitric oxide as a stimulus for the expression of proteins that participate in islet recovery from nitric oxide-mediated damage. These studies indicate that heat shock prevents cytokine-induced islet damage by inhibiting iNOS expression, and suggest that nitric oxide is one effector molecule that stimulates the expression of factors involved in beta-cell recovery from nitric oxide-mediated damage.
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