Diabetes, Vol 29, Issue 9 747-751, Copyright © 1980 by American Diabetes Association
Glucose stimulation of somatostatin and insulin release from the isolated, perfused rat pancreas
RL Sorenson, DV Lindell and RP Elde
Insulin and somatostatin release from the isolated perfused rat pancreas
was studied under conditions of 50 and 300 mg/dl glucose as well as a
linear 50-300 mg/dl glucose gradient. The glucose-stimulated response
profile of somatostatin was nearly parallel to that of insulin in both the
acute and gradient dose experiments. Antisomatostatin serum was without
significant effect on glucose-stimulated insulin release. In spite of the
marked, fifteenfold stimulation of somatostatin release (1.5 x 10-10 M in
the perfusate effluent) by glucose, the concentration of somatostatin was
insufficient to significantly alter glucose-stimulated insulin release in
the isolated perfused rat pancreas.