The histomorphometric parameters of endocrine pancreas after bariatric surgery in healthy animal models

The aim of this study is to describe in depth how different bariatric surgeries affect to the cellularity of β-cells in the pancreatic islet. There are much data regarding the possible physiological mechanisms involved in resolution of type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery. But these data usually are controversial. We reported a direct influence of bariatric surgical technique on endocrine pancreas cellular turnover. Some surgeries increase proliferation processes of the β-cells. Our objective is to report the histomorphometric mechanism that these techniques stimulate over the cellularity of pancreatic islet.

To this purpose, we used adult male Wistar rats to undergo the different techniques. We developed three surgical techniques (Sleeve gastrectomy and Y-Roux Gastric bypass as the most usual bariatric techniques, and a purely malabsorptive technique); moreover two control groups were performed (Sham and fasting controls).

We completed a sequence of morphometric studies to conclude the behaviour of endocrine pancreatic β-cell islet, correlating several histomorphometry parameters.

Our purpose was to show a comprehensive interpretation to the consequences that bariatric surgeries had on the pancreatic islets cellularity. Moreover, we included the main tests to report the cellularity in histological samples.