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Diabetes, Vol 39, Issue 5 575-582, Copyright © 1990 by American Diabetes Association

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Uptake of myo-inositol by early-somite rat conceptus. Transport kinetics and effects of hyperglycemia

MJ Weigensberg, FJ Garcia-Palmer and N Freinkel
Center for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

We have shown that myo-inositol in the cultured rat embryo is diminished whenever malformations are induced by hyperglycemia and that the malformations and reductions of tissue myo-inositol content are not corrected by aldose reductase inhibitors. This study was designed to evaluate the kinetics of myo-[3H]inositol uptake in vitro during 1-, 3-, and 24-h intervals in the 10.5-day rat conceptus (10-12 somites). We found that the equilibration between tissue and medium is relatively slow and that the concentration of free myo-inositol in tissue is only approximately threefold greater than in the medium even after 24 h. The integrated uptake of free myo-inositol by the intact 10.5-day conceptus is a saturable process with a Km (246 +/- 16 microM) consistent with a low-affinity system. The net rate of accumulation into the tissue pool of free myo-inositol exceeds the rate of incorporation of the accumulated myo-inositol into lipid components. Ambient glucose inhibits net myo-inositol uptake in a concentration-dependent fashion, and the inhibition is competitive in nature. The glucose-mediated inhibitions of myo-inositol transport also compromise the concurrent incorporation of myo-[3H]inositol into lipid components, although to a lesser extent. These inhibitory effects are relatively specific for D-glucose and not replicated by equimolar additions of D-mannose or D-galactose. myo-Inositol accumulation by the 10.5-day rat conceptus is also impaired by relatively specific inhibitors of D-glucose transport such as phloridzin or ouabain.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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