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Glucose cycling in islets from healthy and diabetic rats

A Khan, V Chandramouli, CG Ostenson, H Low, BR Landau and S Efendic
Department of Endocrinology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Pancreatic islets from healthy (control) and neonatally streptozocin-induced diabetic (STZ-D) rats, a model for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, were incubated with 3H2O and 5.5 or 16.7 mM glucose. At 5.5 mM glucose, no detectable [3H]glucose was formed. At 16.7 mM, 2.2 patom.islet-1.h-1 of 3H was incorporated into glucose by the control islets and 5.4 patom.islet-1.h-1 by STZ-D islets. About 75% of the 3H was bound to carbon-2 of the glucose. Glucose utilization was 35.3 pmol.islet-1.h-1 by the control and 19.0 pmol.islet-1.h-1 by the STZ-D islets. Therefore, 4.5% of the glucose-6-phosphate formed by the control islets and 15.7% by the STZ-D islets was dephosphorylated. This presumably occurred in the beta-cells of the islets catalyzed by glucose-6-phosphatase. An increased glucose cycling, i.e., glucose----glucose-6-phosphate----glucose, in islets of STZ-D rats may contribute to the decreased insulin secretion found in these animals.
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