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Stimulation of Insulin Release by Glucose Is Associated With an Increase in the Number of Docked Granules in the ß-Cells of Rat Pancreatic Islets

From the from the Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University Ithaca, New York

Electron microscopy and quantitative stereological techniques were used to study the dynamics of the docked granule pool in the rat pancreatic ß-cell. The mean number of granules per ß-cell was 11,136. After equilibration in RPMI containing 5.6 mmol/l glucose, 6.4% of the granules (700) were docked at the plasma membrane (also measured as [means ± SE] 4.3 ± 0.6 docked granules per 10 µm of plasma membrane at the perimeter of the cell sections). After a 40-min exposure to 16.7 mmol/l glucose, 10.2% of the granules (1,060) were docked (6.4 ± 0.8 granules per 10 µm of plasma membrane). Thus, the docked pool increased by 50% during stimulation with glucose. Islets were also exposed to 16.7 mmol/l glucose in the absence or presence of 10 µmol/l nitrendipine. In the absence and presence of nitrendipine, there were 6.1 ± 0.7 and 6.3 ± 0.6 granules per 10 µm of membrane, respectively. Thus, glucose increased granule docking independently of increased [Ca²⁺]i and exocytosis. The data suggest a limit to the number of docking sites. As the rate of docking exceeded the rate of exocytosis, docking is not rate limiting for insulin release. Only with extremely high release rates, glucose stimulation after a 4-h incubation with a high concentration of fatty acid-free BSA, was the docked granule pool reduced in size.

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