Diabetes, Vol 38, Issue 5 562-568, Copyright © 1989 by American Diabetes Association

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Increased beta-cell secretory capacity as mechanism for islet adaptation to nicotinic acid-induced insulin resistance

SE Kahn, JC Beard, MW Schwartz, WK Ward, HL Ding, RN Bergman, GJ Taborsky and D Porte
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

To determine whether prolonged nicotinic acid (NA) administration produces insulin resistance and, if so, how the normal pancreatic islet adapts to prolonged insulin resistance, we administered incremental doses of NA to 11 normal men for 2 wk, ending at 2 g/day. Insulin sensitivity was measured with Bergman's minimal model. Islet function was evaluated by measurement of acute insulin (AIR) and glucagon (AGR) responses to arginine at three glucose levels. Insulin resistance was demonstrated and quantified by a marked drop in the insulin sensitivity index (Sl) from 6.72 +/- 0.77 to 2.47 +/- 0.36 x 10(-5) min-1/pM (P less than .0001) and resulted in a doubling of basal immunoreactive insulin levels (from 75 +/- 7 to 157 +/- 21 pM, P less than .001) with no change in fasting glucose (5.5 +/- 0.1 vs. 5.7 +/- 0.1 mM). Proinsulin levels also increased (from 9 +/- 1 to 15 +/- 2 pM, P less than .005), but the ratio of proinsulin to immunoreactive insulin did not change (12.7 +/- 1.9 vs. 10.3 +/- 1.9%). beta-Cell changes were characterized by increases in the AIR to glucose (from 548 +/- 157 to 829 +/- 157 pM, P less than .005) and in the AIR to arginine at the fasting glucose level (from 431 +/- 54 to 788 +/- 164 pM, P less than .05). At the maximal hyperglycemia level the AIR to arginine represents beta-cell secretory capacity, and this increased with administration of NA (from 2062 +/- 267 to 2630 +/- 363 pM, P less than .05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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