Diabetes, Vol 39, Issue 8 955-964, Copyright © 1990 by American Diabetes Association

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Kinetics of insulin-mediated and non-insulin-mediated glucose uptake in humans

SV Edelman, M Laakso, P Wallace, G Brechtel, JM Olefsky and AD Baron
Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Diego, California.

The kinetics of insulin-mediated glucose uptake (IMGU) and non-insulin-mediated glucose uptake (NIMGU) in humans have not been well defined. We used the glucose-clamp technique to measure rates of whole-body and leg muscle glucose uptake in six healthy lean men during hyperinsulinemia (approximately 460 pM) to study IMGU and during somatostatin-induced insulinopenia to study NIMGU at four glucose levels (4.5, 9, 12, and 21 mM). To measure leg glucose uptake, the femoral artery and vein were catheterized, and blood flow was measured by thermodilution (leg glucose uptake = arteriovenous glucose difference [A-VG] x blood flow). With this approach, we found that, during hyperinsulinemia, both whole-body and leg glucose uptake increased in a curvilinear fashion at every glucose level, the highest glucose uptake values obtained being 139 +/- 17 mumol.kg-1.min-1 and 3656 +/- 931 mumol.min-1.leg-1, respectively. Leg blood flow increased twofold from 6.0 +/- 1.7 to 11.7 +/- 3.1 dl/min (P less than 0.01) over the range of glucose and was correlated with whole-body glucose uptake (r = 0.55, P less than 0.005). Leg muscle glucose extraction, independent of changes in blood flow, which is reflected by the A-VG, saturated over the range of glucose (1.28 +/- 0.12, 2.22 +/- 0.30, 2.92 +/- 0.42, 3.02 +/- 0.41 mM, NS between last 2 values) with a half-maximal effective glucose concentration (EG50) of 5.3 +/- 0.4 mM.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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