Essential role of Notch/Hes1 signaling in postnatal pancreatic exocrine development.

Notch/Hes1 signaling has been shown to play a role in determining the fate of pancreatic progenitor cells. However, its function in postnatal pancreatic maturation is not fully elucidated. We generated conditional Hes1 knockout and/or Notch intracellular domain (NICD) overexpression mice in Ptf1a- or Pdx1-positive pancreatic progenitor cells and analyzed pancreatic tissues. Both Ptf1acre/+; Hes1f/f and Ptf1acre/+; Rosa26NICD mice showed normal pancreatic development at P0. However, exocrine tissue of the pancreatic tail in Ptf1acre/+; Hes1f/f mice atrophied and was replaced by fat tissue by 4 weeks of age, with increased apoptotic cells and fewer centroacinar cells. This impaired exocrine development was completely rescued by NICD overexpression in Ptf1acre/+; Hes1f/f; Rosa26NICD mice, suggesting compensation by a Notch signaling pathway other than Hes1. Conversely, Pdx1-Cre; Hes1f/f mice showed impaired postnatal exocrine development in both the pancreatic head and tail, revealing that the timing and distribution of embryonic Hes1 expression affects postnatal exocrine tissue development. Notch signaling has an essential role in pancreatic progenitor cells for the postnatal maturation of exocrine tissue, partly through the formation of centroacinar cells. © 2021. Japanese Society of Gastroenterology.

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Katsutoshi Kuriyama, Yuzo Kodama, Masahiro Shiokawa, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Saiko Marui, Takeshi Kuwada, Yuko Sogabe, Nobuyuki Kakiuchi, Teruko Tomono, Tomoaki Matsumori, Atsushi Mima, Toshihiro Morita, Tatsuki Ueda, Motoyuki Tsuda, Yuki Yamauchi, Yojiro Sakuma, Yuji Ota, Takahisa Maruno, Norimitsu Uza, Ryoichiro Kageyama, Tsutomu Chiba, Hiroshi Seno. Essential role of Notch/Hes1 signaling in postnatal pancreatic exocrine development. Journal of gastroenterology. 2021 Jul;56(7):673-687

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