Hospital time prior to death and pancreas histopathology: implications for future studies.

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It remains unclear whether the length of hospital stay prior to organ donation affects the presence of cells infiltrating the pancreas or the frequency of replicating beta cells.\nMETHODS: To address this, 39 organ donors without diabetes were matched for age, sex, BMI and ethnicity in groups of three. Within each group, donors varied by length of hospital stay immediately prior to organ donation (<3 days, 3 to <6 days, or ≥6 days). Serial sections from tissue blocks in the pancreas head, body and tail regions were immunohistochemically double stained for insulin and CD45, CD68, or Ki67. Slides were electronically scanned and quantitatively analysed for cell positivity.\nRESULTS: No differences in CD45+, CD68+, insulin+, Ki67+ or Ki67+/insulin+ cell frequencies were found when donors were grouped according to duration of hospital stay. Likewise, no interactions were observed between hospitalisation group and pancreas region, age, or both; however, with Ki67 staining, cell frequencies were greater in the body vs the tail region of the pancreas (∆ 0.65 [unadjusted 95% CI 0.25, 1.04]; p = 0.002) from donors <12 year of age. Interestingly, frequencies were less in the body vs tail region of the pancreas for both CD45+ cells (∆ -0.91 [95% CI -1.71, -0.10]; p = 0.024) and insulin+ cells (∆ -0.72 [95% CI -1.10, -0.34]; p < 0.001).\nCONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION: This study suggests that immune or replicating beta cell frequencies are not affected by the length of hospital stay prior to donor death in pancreases used for research.\nDATA AVAILABILITY: All referenced macros (adopted and developed), calculations, programming code and numerical dataset files (including individual-level donor data) are freely available on GitHub through Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1034422.", "claims": [{"id": "claim-target-result", "statement": "No differences in CD45+, CD68+, insulin+, Ki67+ or Ki67+/insulin+ cell frequencies were found when donors were grouped according to duration of hospital stay.", "kind": "qualitative", "target": null, "evidence": [{"asset": "source:pmid:29128936", "locator": "sections[0] \"Abstract\" paragraph 3", "quote": "No differences in CD45+, CD68+, insulin+, Ki67+ or Ki67+/insulin+ cell frequencies were found when donors were grouped according to duration of hospital stay."}], "state": "complete"}], "gaps": []}, "experiment": {"state": "partial", "objective": "No differences in CD45+, CD68+, insulin+, Ki67+ or Ki67+/insulin+ cell frequencies were found when donors were grouped according to duration of hospital stay.", "steps": [{"id": "read_published_estimate", "order": 1, "name": "Read the published estimate from the source", "kind": "other", "state": "complete", "blocked_on": null, "description": "The claim, method and evidence span published with the source article.", "duration_hours": null, "parameters": {}, "inputs": ["source:pmid:29128936"], "outputs": ["the published estimate and its evidence"], "instruments": [], "reagents": []}, {"id": "obtain_source_data", "order": 2, "name": "Obtain the source data from the named repository", "kind": "data-preparation", "state": "blocked", "blocked_on": "data:accession_absent", "description": "The GEO series accession resolves and its sample accessions are listed. 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