Diabetes 50:1324-1329, 2001
© 2001 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
GLUT4 Is Reduced in Slow Muscle Fibers of Type 2 Diabetic Patients
Is Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes a Slow, Type 1 Fiber Disease?
Michael Gaster1,2,
Peter Staehr2,
Henning Beck-Nielsen2,
Henrick D. Schrøder1, and
Aase Handberg3
1 Pathology and
2 Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
3 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
To gain further insight into the mechanisms underlying muscle insulin resistance, the influence of obesity and type 2 diabetes on GLUT4 immunoreactivity in slow and fast skeletal muscle fibers was studied. Through a newly developed, very sensitive method using immunohistochemistry combined with morphometry, GLUT4 density was found to be significantly higher in slow compared with fast fibers in biopsy specimens from lean and obese subjects. In contrast, in type 2 diabetic subjects, GLUT4 density was significantly lower in slow compared with fast fibers. GLUT4 density in slow fibers from diabetic patients was reduced by 9% compared with the weight-matched obese subjects and by 18% compared with the lean control group. The slow-fiber fraction was reduced to 86% in the obese subjects and to 75% in the diabetic subjects compared with the control group. Estimated GLUT4 contribution from slow fibers was reduced to 77% in the obese subjects and to 61% in type 2 diabetic patients compared with the control subjects. We propose that a reduction in the fraction of slow-twitch fibers, combined with a reduction in GLUT4 expression in slow fibers, may reduce the insulin-sensitive GLUT4 pool in type 2 diabetes and thus contribute to skeletal muscle insulin resistance.

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