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Endocrinology, Vol 130, 2634-2640, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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Enzymic and metabolic anomalies in islets of diabetic rats: relationship to B cell mass

MH Giroix, D Baetens, J Rasschaert, V Leclercq-Meyer, A Sener, B Portha and WJ Malaisse
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie de la Nutrition, CNRS URA-307, Universite de Paris VII, France.

A preferential impairment of the pancreatic B cell secretory response to D-glucose occurs in adult rats injected with streptozotocin during the neonatal period. Three possible explanations for such a preferential defect were investigated in the present study. First, the time course for 3-O-methyl-D-glucose uptake by islets suggested that the anomaly in hexose transport was mainly attributable to a decrease in the space accessible to the D-glucose analog commensurate with the decrease in B cell mass, rather than to a delayed equilibration of hexose concentration across the B cell plasma membrane. Second, the activity of glucose-6-phosphatase was found to be equally low in islets from diabetic and control rats, ruling out the futile cycling between D- glucose and D-glucose 6-phosphate as a cause for the preferential alteration of the secretory response to the hexose. Third, the activity of flavine adenine dinucleotide-linked glycerophosphate dehydrogenase was found to be decreased to a greater relative extent than the B cell mass. This coincided with an impaired generation of 3HOH from L-[2-3H] glycerol in intact islets. It is proposed, therefore, that an altered circulation in the glycerol phosphate shuttle may play a major role in the impaired process of glucose-stimulated insulin release in this model of noninsulin-dependent diabetes.


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