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Endocrinology, Vol 107, 461-463, Copyright © 1980 by Endocrine Society

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Morphine-induced hyperglycemia: role of insulin and glucagon

E Ipp, V Schusdziarra, V Harris and RH Unger

An iv bolus injection of 0.5 mg/kg morphine, about twice the therapeutic dose, caused plasma glucose to rise more than 120 mg/dl in alloxan-diabetic conscious dogs but had little effect on conscious normal dogs. Plasma glucagon rose in the diabetic and nondiabetic groups by 30 +/- 10 and 100 +/- 29 pg/ml, respectively, but insulin levels increased significantly only in the nondiabetics. The hyperglycemic action on morphine may, at least in part, be the result of an increase in glucagon secretion without a sufficient accompanying release of insulin.


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