Diabetes, Vol 44, Issue 5 495-500, Copyright © 1995 by American Diabetes Association

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Altered glucose dependence of glucagon-like peptide I(7-36)-induced insulin secretion from the Zucker (fa/fa) rat pancreas

X Jia, R Elliott, YN Kwok, RA Pederson and CH McIntosh
Department of Physiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

In previous studies on the enteroinsular axis in Zucker rats, it was found that glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) levels were normal in obese animals, but the glucose threshold for the insulinotropic action of GIP in the perfused rat pancreas was reduced. Glucagon-like peptide I (GLP-I)(7-36) is also an important incretin, and in the current study, glucose, insulin, and immunoreactive (IR)-COOH-terminal GLP-I responses to oral glucose were compared in lean (Fa/?) and obese (fa/fa) rats. In addition, the concentration thresholds for stimulation and glucose dependence of perfused pancreases to GLP-I(7-36) were examined. Glucose responses to oral glucose were similar in fa/fa and Fa/? rats. Obese animals were hyperinsulinemic when fasting and after oral glucose. Significant increases in IR-GLP-I levels in response to glucose were only observed in fa/fa rats. Perfused pancreases from fa/fa rats hypersecreted insulin at all glucose concentrations. In the presence of 4.4 mmol/l glucose, GLP-I(7-36) increased insulin secretion in fa/fa pancreases approximately 25-fold, whereas there was only a 5-fold increase in Fa/? pancreases. Pancreases from fa/fa rats, perfused with a glucose gradient (2.8-11 mmol/l) in the presence of GLP-I(7-36), responded with an immediate increase in insulin secretion, i.e., at a glucose concentration of 2.8 mmol/l, whereas Fa/? pancreases required a minimum of 4.22 mmol/l glucose for stimulation. With high glucose (16.7 mmol/l), both fa/fa and Fa/? rat pancreases exhibited similar responsiveness to GLP-I(7-36), having thresholds of < 50 pmol/l.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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