Name: A Murine Pancreatic Islet Cell-based Screening for Diabetogenic Environmental Chemicals (Video) | JoVE Journal
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Description: Learn to isolate mouse pancreatic islet cells for screening diabetogenic environmental chemicals using ROS induction assays. This method enables identification of xenobiotics that impair glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.

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This work was supported by a pilot project grant from CREH center sponsored by NIEHS and by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31572626).

All animal experiments were executed in compliance with all relevant guidelines, regulations and regulatory agencies. The protocol being demonstrated was performed under the guidance and approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the Texas A&#38;M Institute for Genomic Medicine.
1. Solution Preparation
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	<li>Dilute 10x Hank&#39;s balanced salt solution to 1x with double distilled H2O, and store at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Prepare the isolation solution by adding HEPES (10 mM), MgCl2 (1 mM), and glucose (5 mM). Adjust the pH to 7.4 and keep on ice.</li>
	<li>Prepare the collagenase solution from collagenase Type 4. 
	Note: Specifically, collagenase Type 4 contains 160 U per mg of dry weight. 1 g of collagenase Type 4 is diluted in 5 mL double distilled H2O with a concentration of 200 mg/mL. 2 mL of the diluted Collagenase is added to 30 mL ice cold isolation solution, and 6 mL of collagenase solution is transferred to a 50 mL tube for each mouse.</li>
	<li>Prepare the wash solution by adding 1 mM CaCl2 to the isolation solution.</li>
	<li>Prepare the purification solution with cold polysucrose/sodium diatrizoate solution (1.1119 g/mL, 5 mL).</li>
	<li>Prepare 500 mL of islet culture medium by adding L-glutamine (20 mM), penicillin (100 U/mL), streptomycin (100 &#181;g/mL), and fetal bovine serum (FBS) (10%) into RPMI medium.</li>
	<li>Prepare the DCFH-DA stock solution by dissolving the powder in distilled water at 200 &#181;M and store at -20 &#176;C. 
	Note: The ROS staining solution is freshly made by diluting DCFH-DA stock solution to the final concentration of 5 &#181;M in RPMI. This reagent should be protected from light.</li>
</ol>
2. Surgical Preparation
<ol>
	<li>Intraperitoneally inject (I.P.) a mouse with avertin (2.5% avertin, 0.4 mL/20 g). After the mouse is completely anesthetized and no longer responds to hind foot pinches, euthanize the mouse and move to the biological hood.</li>
	<li>Place the euthanized mouse with the abdominal side facing up and spray the skin with 70% ethanol for sterilization.</li>
	<li>Open the abdominal cavity with a 1 cm U-incision upon the upper abdomen and retract the skin in the rostral direction over the chest to expose the abdominal cavity.</li>
</ol>
3. Pancreas Perfusion and Removal
<ol>
	<li>As illustrated in Figure 1, find the location of the ampulla. Use a pair of curved forceps to clamp the duodenum close to the position of sphincter of Oddi. Use another pair of curved forceps to clamp the duodenum wall to block the bile pathway in the duodenum. 
	Note: The ampulla has not been inserted in this step. This step is meant to block the bile pathway in the duodenum.</li>
	<li>Reposition the mouse with the head proximal and the feet distal with regards to the researcher.</li>
	<li>Find the common bile duct and slowly inject 3 mL of collagenase solution with a 30 G needle and 5 mL syringe. Make sure the common bile duct and the pancreas are inflated after the injection.</li>
	<li>Remove the distended pancreas using the curved forceps and fine scissors to separate it from the descending colon, intestines, stomach, and spleen. Place the pancreas in a 50-mL tube containing 3 mL of collagenase solution and keep it on ice.</li>
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4. Pancreas Digestion
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	<li>Place each 50-mL tube into a 37 &#176;C water-bath. Incubate for 15 - 20 min (time varies with the strain and age of the mice).</li>
	<li>Vibrate the tube using a vortex.</li>
	<li>Pool 4 - 5 digested pancreas in a large sterile sink strainer and use a scoop to make the pancreas fall apart thoroughly. Use a 23 G needle and 10 mL syringe containing wash solution to forcefully pipette the digested cells off the screen. Collect the wash solution in a 50-mL tube.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge the tubes at 97 x g at 4 &#176;C for 1 min and decant the supernatant.</li>
	<li>Add 25 mL of wash solution to tubes and re-suspend the tissue by gentle vortexing. Spin down the tissues at 97 x g at 4 &#176;C for 1 min and decant the supernatant. Repeat for 3 times. Be careful not to dislodge the pelleted tissue.</li>
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5. Purification of Islets
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	<li>Add 10 mL of purification solution to the washed tissue pellet and gently resuspend the contents.</li>
	<li>Gently overlay 5 mL of isolation solution on the purification solution. Be careful to keep a sharp liquid interface between the two solutions.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge the tube at 560 x g at 4 &#176;C for 15 min with slow acceleration and no brake. Insert the pipette into the interface and collect the islets layer into new 50 mL tubes.</li>
	<li>Wash the islets as described in step 3.5.</li>
</ol>
6. Plating and Treatment of Islet Cells
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	<li>Resuspend the islets in 10 mL of islets culture solution, gently mix well, and place 100 &#181;L/well with a multichannel pipette to a 96-well plate. Place approximately 5 islets per 96 well.</li>
	<li>Place the plate in the tissue culture incubator for 12 h.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge (112 x g) the 96-well plate and remove the culture medium.</li>
	<li>Dilute the environmental chemicals in the islets culture medium. Add 100 &#181;L of each of the chemical diluents into separate wells of the plate. Resuspend the islets in each well and incubate for 12 h at 37 &#176;C (the concentration varies for the different environmental chemicals).</li>
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7. ROS Staining and Measurement
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	<li>&#160;After islets treatment, wash with 1x PBS (200 &#181;L for each 96-well). 
	Note: The concentration of the chemicals is as follow: AFB1: 3 &#181;M, Atrazine: 100 &#181;M, BaP: 10 &#181;M, BPA: 100 &#181;M, &#946;-estrogen, PCB126: 10 &#181;M, Nonylphenol, and BPA: 100 &#181;M.</li>
	<li>Use N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) as an antioxidant to quench ROS. Add 5 mM of NAC to the ROS-induced chemical diluents and incubate for 12 h at 37 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge the 96-well plate at 112 x g and incubate with 5 &#181;M solution of fluorescent probe (H2-DCFH-DA dissolved in RPMI media) at 37 &#176;C for 60 min.</li>
	<li>Wash the treated islet cells 3 times with PBS and measure the fluorescence with a microplate reader at 488 nm. 
	Note: The accumulation of DCF in cells may be measured by an increase in fluorescence at 530 nm when the sample is excited at 488 nm.</li>
	<li>Perform the glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) assay9 on ROS-inducing xenobiotic treated islets and untreated islets to measure the xenobiotic effects on the physiological function of the pancreatic islets.</li>
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The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.

Accumulating evidence suggests that exposure to environmental chemicals plays an important role in the development of T2DM. Xenobiotics-induced ROS has been recognized as a potential etiological factor contributing to the development of T2DM. Humans are exposed to a wide range of xenobiotic chemicals and there is a great need for novel research techniques to effectively identify the pancreatic toxicants and to investigate the mechanism of toxicity specific to the pancreatic cells.
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Increases in the prevalence of T2DM have become a global health crisis in recent years posing a serious threat to public health1. Many factors have been found to be causally linked to the development of T2DM, among which, recurring findings suggest that one common convergent point for these factors is the induction of oxidative stress which leads to the generation of excessive ROS2,3. 
A wide spectrum of environmental chemicals including PCBs, dioxins, and BaP has been found to induce oxidative stress, which may impair the function of pancreatic &#946; cells and lead to insulin resistance and T2DM4. Although the physiological level of ROS plays an important role in cellular functions, exposure to ROS that exceeds the capacity of the antioxidant system results in the damage to cells/tissues and leads to diseases5. Pancreatic &#946; cells express a low level of antioxidant enzyme, and thus are a sensitive target for the oxidative stress-mediated damage6,7. Chronic exposure to high levels of ROS has been shown to cause stress-induced pancreatic cell dysfunction5 as well as insulin resistance in the liver and adipose tissue8. 
The overall goal of this project is to develop a cell-based assay to screen chemicals for their diabetogenic potentials based on their induction of ROS in pancreatic cells. The pancreas lacks metabolic detoxification and is a sensitive target for xenobiotic-induced damage6,7. Therefore, by directly measuring the ROS generated in the pancreatic cells, this assay should provide a direct approximation of the chemical-induced injury in the pancreas. To develop this method, we isolated mouse pancreatic islets, cultured the isolated islet under cell culture condition with chemicals, and utilized the chemical-induced ROS generation as the readout. This procedure is simple and effective in identifying ROS-inducing chemicals in the isolated islet; it can be further developed for investigation of the mechanisms of toxicity that are specific to the pancreas in vitro.

<table><tbody><tr><td>10&amp;times;Hank&amp;rsquo;s balanced salt solution&amp;nbsp;</td><td>GIBCO</td><td>14185-052</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Collagenase Type 4</td><td>Worthington Biochemical Corporation</td><td>CLS-4</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>polysucrose/sodium diatrizoate solution&amp;nbsp;</td><td>Sigma</td><td>10771</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2&amp;rsquo;,7&amp;rsquo;-dichlorofluorescein (DCFH-DA)</td><td>Sigma</td><td>D6883-50MG</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>fluorescence microplate reader&amp;nbsp;</td><td>Biotek</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>L-glutamine</td><td>Sigma</td><td>G8540-25G</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>streptomycin</td><td>GIBCO</td><td>15140148</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>FBS</td><td>GIBCO</td><td>26140079</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>RPMI 1640</td><td>GIBCO</td><td>11875-085</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>avertin</td><td>Sigma</td><td>T48402-25G</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rat/Mouse Insulin ELISA Kit</td><td>Millipore</td><td>EZRMI-13K</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Centrifuge</td><td>Sorval</td><td>Sorval RT7</td><td>for 96-well plate centrifuge</td></tr><tr><td>Microplate reader</td><td>Biotek</td><td>Epoch 2</td><td>for fluorescence reading</td></tr></tbody></table>

a murine pancreatic islet cell-based screening for diabetogenic environmental chemicals

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Exposure to certain environmental chemicals in human and animals has been found to cause cellular damage of the pancreatic &#946; cells which will lead to the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although the mechanisms for the chemical-induced &#946; cell damage were unclear and likely to be complex, one recurring finding is that these chemicals induce oxidative stress leading to the generation of excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) which induce damage to the &#946; cell. To identify potential diabetogenic environmental chemicals, we isolated pancreatic islet cells from C57BL/6 mice and cultured islet cells in 96-well cell culture plates; then, the islet cells were dosed with chemicals and the ROS generation was detected by 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein (DCFH-DA) fluorescent dye. Using this method, we found that bisphenol A (BPA), Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), could induce high levels of ROS, suggesting that they may potentially induce damage in islet cells. This method should be useful for screening diabetogenic xenobiotics. In addition, the cultured islet cells may also be adapted for in vitro analysis of chemical-induced toxicity in pancreatic cells.

A micrograph of the healthy Isolated islet is shown in Figure 2, in which islets have a round or oval shape with relatively uniform size (although size uniformity can vary from strain to strain). We next investigated the pancreatic islet functions in an in vitro assay by isolating the islet and stimulating the insulin secretion in the culture islets. Figure 3 shows our typical analysis of the GSIS assay from C57BL/6 mous...

Here we present a protocol to isolate mouse pancreatic islet cells for screening the ROS inductions by the xenobiotics in order to identify the potential diabetogenic xenobiotic chemicals.

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