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Endocrinology, Vol 131, 765-771, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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Antithyrotropin-releasing hormone serum inhibits secretion of glucagon from isolated perfused rat pancreas: an experimental model for positive feedback regulation of glucagon secretion

JC Ebiou, D Grouselle and S Aratan-Spire
INSERM U.30, Biologie et Pathologie de la Croissance et du Developpement, Hopital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France.

TRH is synthesized in the islets of Langerhans and was found in the perfusate of isolated rat pancreas. In the present study, designed to determine the role of endogenous TRH, we first characterized chromatographically the identity of immunoreactive TRH with synthetic pGlu-His-Pro-NH2. Since endogenous TRH secretion may mask the effects of exogenous TRH, we performed, in parallel to dose-response studies, immunoneutralization experiments using anti-TRH serum to neutralize the endogenous TRH secretion from isolated perfused rat pancreas. The data indicate that exogenous TRH enhances basal glucagon secretion; inversely, anti-TRH serum inhibits glucose plus arginine-induced glucagon secretion and produces a concomitant slight inhibition of somatostatin secretion. The present study shows a physiological contribution for endogenous TRH as a local modulator of intraislet hormone regulation; from these observations, we postulate a direct effect of pancreatic TRH on glucagon-containing (alpha) cell secretion, which, in turn, may produce the fluctuation in somatostatin secretion. Local TRH secretion provides a model for positive feedback regulation of glucagon secretion, frequently associated with diabetes.


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