Inhibition by rat diazepam-binding inhibitor/acyl-CoA-binding protein of glucose-induced insulin secretion in the rat

1994 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claes-Göran Östenson ◽  
Bo Ahrén ◽  
Sven Karlsson ◽  
Jens Knudsen ◽  
Suad Efendic

Östenson C-G, Ahrén B, Karlsson S, Knudsen J, Efendic S. Inhibition by rat diazepam-binding inhibitor/ acyl-CoA-binding protein of glucose-induced insulin secretion in the rat. Eur J Endocrinol 1994;131:201–4. ISSN 0804–4643 Diazepam-binding inhibitor (DBI) has been localized immunohistochemically in many organs. In porcine and rat pancreas, DBI is present in non-B-cells of the pancreatic islets. Porcine peptide also has been shown to suppress insulin secretion from rat pancreas in vitro. Recently, acyl-CoA-binding protein (ACBP) was isolated from rat liver and shown to be identical structurally to DBI isolated from rat brain. Using this rat DBI/ACBP, we have studied its effects on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in the rat, both in vivo and in isolated pancreatic islets. Infusion iv of rDBI/ACBP (25 pmol/min) during glucose stimulation induced a moderate and transient reduction of plasma insulin levels. Moreover, rDBI/ACBP suppressed insulin release from batch-incubated isolated islets, stimulated by 16.7 mmol/l glucose, by 24% at 10 nmol/l (p < 0.05) and by 40% at 100 nmol/l (p < 0.01). The peptide (100 nmol/l) also inhibited the insulin response to glucose (16.7 mmol/l) from perifused rat islets by 31% (p < 0.05), mainly by affecting the acute-phase response. Finally, incubation of isolated islets in the presence of rDBI/ACBP antiserum (diluted 1:100 and 1:300) augmented the insulin response to 16.7 mmol/l glucose (p < 0.05 or even less). We conclude that rDBI/ACBP, administered iv or added to the incubation media, suppresses insulin secretion in the rat but that the effect is moderate despite the high concentration used. It is therefore unlikely that the peptide modulates islet hormone release, acting as a classical hormone via the circulation. However, the occurrence of DBI/ACBP in the islets and the enhancing effect by the rDBI/ACBP antibodies on glucose-stimulated insulin release suggest that the peptide is a local modulator of insulin secretion. C-G Östenson, Department of Endocrinology, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden

2007 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Khanh Hoa ◽  
Åke Norberg ◽  
Rannar Sillard ◽  
Dao Van Phan ◽  
Nguyen Duy Thuan ◽  
...  

We recently showed that phanoside, a gypenoside isolated from the plant Gynostemma pentaphyllum, stimulates insulin secretion from rat pancreatic islets. To study the mechanisms by which phanoside stimulates insulin secretion. Isolated pancreatic islets of normal Wistar (W) rats and spontaneously diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats were batch incubated or perifused. At both 3.3 and 16.7 mM glucose, phanoside stimulated insulin secretion several fold in both W and diabetic GK rat islets. In perifusion of W islets, phanoside (75 and 150 μM) dose dependently increased insulin secretion that returned to basal levels when phanoside was omitted. When W rat islets were incubated at 3.3 mM glucose with 150 μM phanoside and 0.25 mM diazoxide to keep K-ATP channels open, insulin secretion was similar to that in islets incubated in 150 μM phanoside alone. At 16.7 mM glucose, phanoside-stimulated insulin secretion was reduced in the presence of 0.25 mM diazoxide (P<0.01). In W islets depolarized by 50 mM KCl and with diazoxide, phanoside stimulated insulin release twofold at 3.3 mM glucose but did not further increase the release at 16.7 mM glucose. When using nimodipine to block L-type Ca2+ channels in B-cells, phanoside-induced insulin secretion was unaffected at 3.3 mM glucose but decreased at 16.7 mM glucose (P<0.01). Pretreatment of islets with pertussis toxin to inhibit exocytotic Ge-protein did not affect insulin response to 150 μM phanoside. Phanoside stimulated insulin secretion from Wand GK rat islets. This effect seems to be exerted distal to K-ATP channels and L-type Ca2+ channels, which is on the exocytotic machinery of the B-cells.


PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad H. Kheder ◽  
Simon R. Bailey ◽  
Kevin J. Dudley ◽  
Martin N. Sillence ◽  
Melody A. de Laat

Background Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is associated with insulin dysregulation, which often manifests as post-prandial hyperinsulinemia. Circulating concentrations of the incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) correlate with an increased insulin response to carbohydrate intake in animals with EMS. However, little is known about the equine GLP-1 receptor (eGLP-1R), or whether GLP-1 concentrations can be manipulated. The objectives were to determine (1) the tissue localisation of the eGLP-1R, (2) the GLP-1 secretory capacity of equine intestine in response to glucose and (3) whether GLP-1 stimulated insulin secretion from isolated pancreatic islets can be attenuated. Methods Archived and abattoir-sourced tissues from healthy horses were used. Reverse transcriptase PCR was used to determine the tissue distribution of the eGLP-1R gene, with immunohistochemical confirmation of its pancreatic location. The GLP-1 secretion from intestinal explants in response to 4 and 12 mM glucose was quantified in vitro. Pancreatic islets were freshly isolated to assess the insulin secretory response to GLP-1 agonism and antagonism in vitro, using concentration-response experiments. Results The eGLP-1R gene is widely distributed in horses (pancreas, heart, liver, kidney, duodenum, digital lamellae, tongue and gluteal skeletal muscle). Within the pancreas the eGLP-1R was immunolocalised to the pancreatic islets. Insulin secretion from pancreatic islets was concentration-dependent with human GLP-1, but not the synthetic analogue exendin-4. The GLP-1R antagonist exendin 9-39 (1 nM) reduced (P = 0.08) insulin secretion by 27%. Discussion The distribution of the eGLP-1R across a range of tissues indicates that it may have functions beyond insulin release. The ability to reduce insulin secretion, and therefore hyperinsulinemia, through eGLP-1R antagonism is a promising and novel approach to managing equine insulin dysregulation.


1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (6) ◽  
pp. E975-E984 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Z. Fadda ◽  
M. Akmal ◽  
L. G. Lipson ◽  
S. G. Massry

Indirect evidence indicates that parathyroid hormone (PTH) interacts with pancreatic islets and modulates their insulin secretion. This property of PTH has been implicated in the genesis of impaired insulin release in chronic renal failure. We examined the direct effect of PTH-(1-84) and PTH-(1-34) on insulin release using in vitro static incubation and dynamic perifusion of pancreatic islets from normal rats. Both moieties of the hormone stimulated in a dose-dependent manner glucose-induced insulin release but higher doses inhibited glucose-induced insulin release. This action of PTH was modulated by the calcium concentration in the media. The stimulatory effect of PTH was abolished by its inactivation and blocked by its antagonist [Tyr-34]bPTH-(7-34)NH2. PTH also augmented phorbol ester (TPA)-induced insulin release, stimulated adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) generation by pancreatic islets, and significantly increased (+50 +/- 2.7%, P less than 0.01) their cytosolic calcium. Verapamil inhibited the stimulatory effect of PTH on insulin release. The data show that 1) pancreatic islets are a PTH target and may have PTH receptors, 2) stimulation of glucose-induced insulin release by PTH is mediated by a rise in cytosolic calcium, 3) stimulation of cAMP production by PTH and a potential indirect activation of protein kinase C by PTH may also contribute to the stimulatory effect on glucose-induced insulin release, and 4) this action of PTH requires calcium in incubation or perifusion media.


1977 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. SCHATZ ◽  
E. F. PFEIFFER

To study the influence of insulin on its own secretion, collagenase-isolated islets of rat pancreas were prelabelled with [3H]leucine for 2 h. After washing the islets, (pro-)insulin release was stimulated by glucose in the presence or absence of exogenous insulin (up to 2·5 mu./ml). Hormone release was unchanged by the presence of exogenous insulin as judged by determination of both immunoreactive insulin and radioactivity incorporated into the proinsulin and insulin fractions of the medium. No direct feedback mechanism for insulin secretion was apparent from this study.


2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 462-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Roberto Bosqueiro ◽  
Everardo Magalhães Carneiro ◽  
Silvana Bordin ◽  
Antonio Carlos Boschero

The effect of tetracaine on 45Ca efflux, cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration [Ca2+]i, and insulin secretion in isolated pancreatic islets and β-cells was studied. In the absence of external Ca2+, tetracaine (0.1-2.0 mM) increased the 45Ca efflux from isolated islets in a dose-dependant manner. Tetracaine did not affect the increase in 45Ca efflux caused by 50 mM K+ or by the association of carbachol (0.2 mM) and 50 mM K+. Tetracaine permanently increased the [Ca2+]i in isolated β-cells in Ca2+-free medium enriched with 2.8 mM glucose and 25 µM D-600 (methoxiverapamil). This effect was also observed in the presence of 10 mM caffeine or 1 µM thapsigargin. In the presence of 16.7 mM glucose, tetracaine transiently increased the insulin secretion from islets perfused in the absence and presence of external Ca2+. These data indicate that tetracaine mobilises Ca2+ from a thapsigargin-insensitive store and stimulates insulin secretion in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. The increase in 45Ca efflux caused by high concentrations of K+ and by carbachol indicates that tetracaine did not interfere with a cation or inositol triphosphate sensitive Ca2+ pool in β-cells.


1993 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Salehi ◽  
I. Lundquist

ABSTRACT In previous in-vivo studies we have presented indirect evidence for the involvement of islet acid glucan-1,4-α-glucosidase (acid amyloglucosidase), a lysosomal glycogen-hydrolysing enzyme, in certain insulin secretory processes. In the present combined in-vitro and in-vivo investigation, we studied whether differential changes in islet acid amyloglucosidase activity were related to the insulin secretory response induced by two mechanistically different secretagogues, glucose and isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX). It was observed that addition of the selective α-glucosidehydrolase inhibitor emiglitate (1 mmol/l) to isolated pancreatic islets resulted in a marked reduction of glucose-induced insulin release. This was accompanied by a pronounced suppression of islet activities of acid amyloglucosidase and acid α-glucosidase, whereas other lysosomal enzyme activities, such as acid phosphatase and N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase, were unaffected. Furthermore, islets first incubated with emiglitate in the presence of high (16·7 mmol/l) glucose released less insulin than untreated controls in response to glucose in a second incubation period in the absence of emiglitate. In contrast, IBMX-induced insulin release was not influenced by emiglitate although accompanied by a marked reduction of islet activities of all three α-glucosidehydrolases. Basal insulin secretion (1 mmol glucose/1) was unaffected in the presence of emiglitate. In-vivo pretreatment of mice with highly purified fungal amyloglucosidase ('enzyme replacement'), a procedure known to increase islet amyloglucosidase activity, resulted in a greatly enhanced insulin secretory response to an i.v. glucose load. The increase in insulin release was accompanied by a markedly improved glucose tolerance curve in these animals. In contrast, enzyme pretreatment did not influence the insulin response or the blood glucose levels after an i.v. injection of IBMX. The data lend further support to our hypothesis that islet acid amyloglucosidase is involved in the multifactorial insulin secretory processes induced by glucose but not in those involving direct activation of the cyclic AMP system. The results also indicate separate, or at least partially separate, pathways for insulin release induced by glucose and IBMX. Journal of Endocrinology (1993) 138, 391–400


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 1518-1522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Chan ◽  
Jeffrey Lejeune

The direct effects of dexamethasone exposure on insulin secretion from islets of fa/fa rats and their lean littermates (Fa/?) were compared. After 72 h culture in 1 nM dexamethasone, glucose (27.5 mM)-stimulated insulin secretion over 90 min from islets of lean rats was significantly decreased compared with islets cultured without dexamethasone (12.9 ± 1.4 vs. 5.7 ± 1.0% of total islet content, p < 0.05). Higher doses of dexamethasone for 24–48 h culture produced similar effects. For islets of fa/fa rats, the minimum inhibitory concentration of dexamethasone was 10-fold higher, and islets required at least 48 h exposure for inhibitory effects to be observed. Dexamethasone also decreased the insulin response by islets to glybenclamide, indicating that dexamethasone effects were not specific to glucose transport or metabolism. The results suggest that islets of fa/fa rats may be less sensitive to direct inhibitory effects of glucocorticoids on glucose-stimulated insulin release than islets of lean animals.Key words: obesity, glucocorticoid, insulin, Zucker rat.


1993 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Svensson ◽  
S. Sandler ◽  
C. Hellerström

ABSTRACT Previous studies have shown that 4 weeks after syngeneic transplantation of a suboptimal number of islets into either C57BL/6J (BL/6J) or C57BL/KsJ (BL/KsJ) diabetic mice there is an impaired insulin secretion by the perfused grafts. After normalization of the blood glucose level with a second islet graft, the BL/6J strain showed restored insulin secretion whilst that of the BL/KsJ strain remained impaired. The aim of the present work was to study the effects of glucose on the in-vitro function of islet β-cells from these two mouse strains, with different sensitivities of their β-cells to glucose in vivo. Isolated pancreatic islets from each strain were kept for 1 week in tissue culture at 5·6, 11, 28 or 56 mmol glucose/l and were subsequently analysed with regard to insulin release, (pro)-insulin and total protein biosynthesis, insulin, DNA and insulin mRNA contents and glucose metabolism. Islets from both strains cultured at 28 or 56 mmol glucose/l showed an increased accumulation of insulin in the culture medium and an enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin release compared with corresponding control islets cultured at 11 mmol glucose/l. After culture at either 5·6 or 56 mmol/l, rates of (pro)insulin biosynthesis were decreased in BL/KsJ islets in short-term incubations at 17 mmol glucose/l, whereas islets cultured at 56 mmol glucose/l showed a marked increase at 1·7 mmol glucose/l. In BL/6J islets, the (pro)insulin biosynthesis rates were similar to those of the BL/KsJ islets with one exception, namely that no decrease was observed at 56 mmol glucose/l. Islets of both strains showed a decreased insulin content after culture with 56 mmol glucose/l. Insulin mRNA content was increased in islets cultured in 28 or 56 mmol glucose/l from both mouse strains. Glucose metabolism showed no differences in the rates of glucose oxidation, however, in islets cultured in 56 mmol glucose/l the utilization of glucose was increased in both BL/6J and BL/KsJ animals. There were no differences in DNA content in islets cultured at different glucose concentrations, suggesting no enhancement of cell death. The present study indicates that, irrespective of genetic background, murine β-cells can adapt to very high glucose concentrations in vitro without any obvious signs of so-called glucotoxicity. Previously observed signs of glucotoxicity in vivo in BL/KsJ islets appear not to be related only to glucose but rather to an additional factor in the diabetic environment. Journal of Endocrinology (1993) 136, 289–296


1987 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Berglund

ABSTRACT Perfusion of the mouse or rat pancreas with 20 mmol d-glucose/l caused a biphasic release of insulin. The second phase was nearly constant in the mouse but rose in the rat. Repeated pulses of 8, 20 or 30 mmol d-glucose/l did not potentiate subsequent insulin responses in the mouse, whereas repeated pulses of 20 mmol/l did in the rat. When 20 mmol d-glucose/l was introduced through the mesenteric artery or aorta of the mouse, the pattern of insulin release was the same as when it was introduced through the coeliac artery. Thus, insulin secretion in mice differs from that in rats both in not showing an increasing second phase in response to continuous stimulation with glucose and also in not showing successive enhancement in the insulin response to repeated pulses of glucose. J. Endocr. (1987) 114, 185–189


Endocrinology ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Z. Strowski ◽  
R. M. Parmar ◽  
A. D. Blake ◽  
J. M. Schaeffer

Abstract Somatostatin (SST) potently inhibits insulin and glucagon release from pancreatic islets. Five distinct membrane receptors (SSTR1–5) for SST are known, and at least two (SSTR2 and SSTR5) have been proposed to regulate pancreatic endocrine function. Our current understanding of SST physiology is limited by the receptor subtype selectivity of peptidyl SST analogs, making it difficult to assign a physiological function to an identified SST receptor subtype. To better understand the physiology of SSTRs we studied the in vitro effects of potent subtype-selective nonpeptidyl SST analogs on the regulation of pancreatic glucagon and insulin secretion in wild-type (WT) and in somatostatin receptor 2 knockout (SSTR2KO) mice. There was no difference in basal glucagon and insulin secretion between islets isolated from SSTR2KO and WT mice; however, potassium/arginine-stimulated glucagon secretion was approximately 2-fold higher in islets isolated from SSTR2KO mice. Neither SST nor any SSTR-selective agonist inhibited basal glucagon or insulin release. SST-14 potently inhibited stimulated glucagon secretion in islets from WT mice and much less effectively in islets from SSTR2KO mice. The SSTR2 selective analog L-779,976 inhibited glucagon secretion in islets from WT, but was inactive in islets from SSTR2KO mice. L-817,818, an SSTR5 selective analog, slightly reduced glucagon release in both animal groups, whereas SSTR1, -3, and -4 selective analogs were inactive. SST and L-817,818 inhibited glucose stimulated insulin release in islets from WT and SSTR2KO mice. L-779,976 much less potently reduced insulin secretion from WT islets. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that SST inhibition of glucagon release in mouse islets is primarily mediated via SSTR2, whereas insulin secretion is regulated primarily via SSTR5.


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