Ghrelin Function in Insulin Release and Glucose Metabolism

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuya Dezaki
Endocrine ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berrin Oguzhan ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Karim Louchami ◽  
Philippe Courtois ◽  
Laurence Portois ◽  
...  

1975 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol Cerasi

ABSTRACT If two consecutive glucose infusions are administered with 40 min of rest between, the insulin response to the second challenge is markedly potentiated. When the insulin response to the first glucose infusion was suppressed by 65 % with the aid of adrenaline, potentiation of the insulin response to the second infusion was not modified. This suggests that the generation of a state of enhancement in the islet does not necessitate that glucose exerts its insulin releasing action. It is postulated that islet glucose metabolism may be involved in producing the potentiation. Pretreatment of the subjects with a glucose infusion enhanced also the insulin responses to glucagon and to tolbutamide, given intravenously 50 min later. Thus, the potentiation generated by glucose is not restricted to the insulinogenic signal induced by glucose. The eventual role that the beta-cell adenylate cyclase may play in this respect is discussed.


Metabolism ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Natalucci ◽  
Massimo Boemi ◽  
Daniele Fumelli ◽  
Paolo Fumelli ◽  
Roberto Burattini

1983 ◽  
Vol 212 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
P A Halban ◽  
G A Praz ◽  
C B Wollheim

Glucose metabolism and insulin release were studied in isolated rat islets and in an insulin-producing rat cell-line (RINm5F). Intact islets displayed two components of glucose utilization, with glucose stimulation of insulin release being associated with the high-Km component (reflecting glucokinase-like activity). Glucose failed to stimulate insulin release from RINm5F cells, which only displayed a single low-Km component of glucose utilization. Only low-Km (hexokinase-like) glucose-phosphorylating activity was found for disrupted RINm5F cells. These changes in glucose metabolism may contribute towards the failure of glucose to stimulate insulin release from RINm5F cells.


2006 ◽  
Vol 189 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Patterson ◽  
P R Flatt ◽  
L Brennan ◽  
P Newsholme ◽  
N H McClenaghan

Elevated plasma homocysteine has been reported in individuals with diseases of the metabolic syndrome including vascular disease and insulin resistance. As homocysteine exerts detrimental effects on endothelial and neuronal cells, this study investigated effects of acute homocysteine exposure on β-cell function and insulin secretion using clonal BRIN-BD11 β-cells. Acute insulin release studies in the presence of various test reagents were performed using monolayers of BRIN-BD11 cells and samples assayed by insulin radioimmunoassay. Cellular glucose metabolism was assessed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis following 60-min exposure of BRIN-BD11 cell monolayers to glucose in either the absence or presence of homocysteine. Homocysteine dose-dependently inhibited insulin release at moderate and stimulatory glucose concentrations. This inhibitory effect was reversible at all but the highest concentration of homocysteine. 13C-glucose NMR demonstrated decreased labelling of glutamate from glucose at positions C2, C3 and C4, indicating that the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle-dependent glucose metabolism was reduced in the presence of homocysteine. Homocysteine also dose-dependently inhibited insulinotropic responses to a range of glucose-dependent secretagogues including nutrients (alanine, arginine, 2-ketoisocaproate), hormones (glucagon-like peptide-1 (7–36)amide, gastric inhibitory polypeptide and cholecystokinin-8), neurotransmitter (carbachol), drug (tolbutamide) as well as a depolarising concentration of KCl or elevated Ca2+. Insulin secretion induced by activation of adenylate cyclase and protein kinase C pathways with forskolin and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate were also inhibited by homocysteine. These effects were not associated with any adverse action on cellular insulin content or cell viability, and there was no increase in apoptosis/necrosis following exposure to homocysteine. These data indicate that homocysteine impairs insulin secretion through alterations in β-cell glucose metabolism and generation of key stimulus-secretion coupling factors. The participation of homocysteine in possible β-cell demise merits further investigation.


1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (5) ◽  
pp. E846-E857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Liang ◽  
G. Bai ◽  
N. Doliba ◽  
C. Buettger ◽  
L. Wang ◽  
...  

Glucose metabolism and its relationship with glucose-induced insulin release were studied in beta HC9 and beta TC3 cells to identify and characterize key factors controlling the intermediary metabolism of glucose and glucose-induced insulin release. The beta HC9 cell line, derived from pancreatic islets with beta-cell hyperplasia, is characterized by a normal concentration-dependency curve for glucose-stimulated insulin release, whereas the beta TC3 cell line, derived from pancreatic beta-cell tumors, shows a marked leftward shift of this curve. Maximum velocity and the Michaelis-Menten constant of glucose uptake in beta HC9 and beta TC3 cells were similar, even though GLUT-2 expression in these two cell lines differed. In both cell lines, the kinetic characteristics of glucose usage, glucose oxidation, and glucose-induced oxygen consumption were similar to those of glucose phosphorylation, indicating that the kinetics of glucose metabolism from the glucose phosphorylation step in the cytosol to the mitochondrial process of oxidative phosphorylation are determined by the glucose-phosphorylating enzyme, that is, by glucokinase in beta HC9 cells and by hexokinase in beta TC3 cells. Thus beta HC9 cells provide an opportunity for the quantitative analysis of glucose metabolism, the associated generation of coupling factors, and other essential beta-cell functions involved in glucose sensing and insulin secretion.


1994 ◽  
Vol 266 (3) ◽  
pp. C622-C627 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Aizawa ◽  
Y. Sato ◽  
F. Ishihara ◽  
N. Taguchi ◽  
M. Komatsu ◽  
...  

The nature of ATP-sensitive K+ (K+ATP) channel-independent, insulinotropic action of glucose was investigated using non-glucose-primed pancreatic islets. When the beta-cell was depolarized with K+, glucose dose dependently stimulated insulin release despite inhibition of the K+ATP channel closure by diazoxide. K+ depolarization could be replaced with BAY K 8644, a calcium channel agonist. Prior fasting of rats and lowering ambient temperature greatly suppressed glucose oxidation and utilization by the islet cells and abolished insulin release in response to high glucose alone. However, under these conditions, the K+ATP channel-independent, glucose-induced insulin release was clearly demonstrable. p-Nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (sweet taste inhibitor) but not its beta-isomer, neomycin (phospholipase C inhibitor) and staurosporine (C kinase blocker) inhibited the K+ATP channel-independent, insulinotropic action of glucose. For the K+ATP channel-independent glucose-induced insulin release 1) elevation of cytosolic calcium is required, 2) minute glucose metabolism is enough, if glucose metabolism is necessary, and 3) direct recognition of glucose molecule, phospholipase C, and protein kinase C appear to be involved.


1972 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. H. Ashcroft ◽  
L. C. C. Weerasinghe ◽  
J. M. Bassett ◽  
P. J. Randle

1. Rates of insulin release, glucose utilization (measured as [3H]water formation from [5-3H]glucose) and glucose oxidation (measured as14CO2 formation from [1-14C]- or [6-14C]-glucose) were determined in mouse pancreatic islets incubated in vitro, and were used to estimate the rate of oxidation of glucose by the pentose cycle pathway under various conditions. Rates of oxidation of [U-14C]ribose and [U-14C]xylitol were also measured. 2. Insulin secretion was stimulated fivefold when the medium glucose concentration was raised from 3.3 to 16.7mm in the absence of caffeine; in the presence of caffeine (5mm) a similar increase in glucose concentration evoked a much larger (30-fold) increase in insulin release. Glucose utilization was also increased severalfold as the intracellular glucose concentration was raised over this range, particularly between 5 and 11mm, but the rate of oxidation of glucose via the pentose cycle was not increased. 3. Glucosamine (20mm) inhibited glucose-stimulated insulin release and glucose utilization but not glucose metabolism via the pentose cycle. No evidence was obtained for any selective effect on the metabolism of glucose via the pentose cycle of tolbutamide, glibenclamide, dibutyryl 3′:5′-cyclic AMP, glucagon, caffeine, theophylline, ouabain, adrenaline, colchicine, mannoheptulose or iodoacetamide. Phenazine methosulphate (5μm) increased pentose-cycle flux but inhibited glucose-stimulated insulin release. 4. No formation of14CO2 from [U-14C]ribose could be detected: [U-14C]xylitol gave rise to small amounts of14CO2. Ribose and xylitol had no effect on the rate of oxidation of glucose; ribitol and xylitol had no effect on the rate of glucose utilization. Ribose, ribitol and xylitol did not stimulate insulin release under conditions in which glucose produced a large stimulation. 5. It is concluded that in normal mouse islets glucose metabolism via the pentose cycle does not play a primary role in insulin-secretory responses.


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