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Modeling Phasic Insulin Release

Immediate and Time-Dependent Effects of Glucose

From the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

The cellular and molecular mechanisms of insulin secretion are being intensively investigated, yet most researchers are seemingly unaware of the complexity of the dynamic regulation of the secretion. In this article, we summarize studies of the physiology of insulin secretion performed over several decades. The insulin response of perifused islets of rats, perfused rat pancreas, or that of a human, to a square-wave glucose stimulus is biphasic, a transient first-phase response of 4- to 10-min duration followed by a gradual rise in secretion rates (second-phase response). Several hypotheses have been proposed to account for the phasic nature of insulin secretion; they are briefly discussed in this review. We have favored the hypothesis that nutrient stimulators such as glucose, in addition to a primary and almost immediate secretory signal, with time induce both stimulatory and inhibitory messages in the ß-cell, and those messages modulate the primary insulinogenic signal. Indeed, studies in the rat pancreas and in humans have demonstrated that short stimulations with glucose generate a state of refractoriness of the insulin secretion, which we have termed time-dependent inhibition (TDI). Nonnutrient secretagogues such as arginine induce strong TDI independent of the duration of stimulation. Once the agent is removed, TDI persists for a considerable period. In contrast, prolonged stimulations with glucose (and other nutrients) lead to the amplification of the insulin response to subsequent stimuli; this can be demonstrated in the perfused rat pancreas, in perifused islets from several rodents, and in humans. We have termed this stimulatory signal time-dependent potentiation (TDP). The generation of TDP requires higher glucose concentrations and prolonged stimulation; the effect is retained for some time after cessation of the stimulus. Of major interest is the observation that, while the acute insulin response to glucose is severely reduced in glucose-intolerant animals and humans, TDP seems to be intact. The cellular mechanisms of TDI and TDP are poorly understood, but data reviewed here suggest that they are distinct from those that lead to the acute insulin response to stimuli. A model is proposed whereby the magnitude and kinetics of the insulin response to a given stimulus reflect the balance between TDP and TDI. Researchers studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of insulin release are urged to take into consideration these complex and opposing factors which regulate insulin secretion.

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