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Impact of diabetic inheritance on glucose tolerance and insulin secretion in spontaneously diabetic GK-Wistar rats

SM Abdel-Halim, A Guenifi, H Luthman, V Grill, S Efendic and CG Ostenson
Department of Endocrinology, Karolinska Hospital and Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

The impact of genetic factors and maternal diabetes on glucose tolerance and pancreatic beta-cell function was studied in first generation (F1) offspring generated in crosses between the spontaneously diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK)-Wistar rat and normoglycemic control Wistar rats (W). The (GK x W) F1 hybrids were offspring of either male GK (mGK) and female Wistar (fW) (mGK x fW) or male Wistar (mW) and female GK (fGK) (mW x fGK) rats. Already at 8 days of age, blood glucose levels were elevated in GK (7.6 +/- 0.5 vs. 4.8 +/- 0.3 mM in W; P < 0.001) and in F1 rats (6.0 +/- 0.3 in mGK x fW and 6.6 +/- 0.4 mM in mW x fGK; both P < 0.01 vs. W). In 2-month-old male rats, glucose (2 g/kg, intraperitoneally) markedly increased blood glucose levels after 60 min in GK rats (18.1 +/- 0.6 vs. 5.5 +/- 0.3 mM in W; P < 0.001) and moderately increased levels in F1 rats (9.9 +/- 0.9 in mGK x fW and 11.6 +/- 1.0 mM in mW x fGK, both P < 0.01 vs. W). Similar patterns were obtained in female rats. Repeated backcrossing of F1 with W rats successively improved glucose tolerance. In perfused pancreases of male rats, the 20-min insulin response to 16.7 mM glucose was -7.44 +/- 5.18 pmol in GK rats, 71.57 +/- 12.25 pmol in W rats, 9.00 +/- 0.89 pmol in mGK x fW rats, and 18.20 +/- 3.97 pmol in mW x fGK rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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