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Department of Hygiene (Y.M., H.M.), Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Tochigi 32102, Japan; Department of Physiology I (M.K.), Nippon Medical School, Sendagi 1, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113 Japan; Department of Medicine (K.O.), Koshigaya Hospital, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Koshigaya, Saitama 343, Japan
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Yoshikazu Miura, Ph.D., Department of Hygiene, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880, Mibu, Tochigi 32102, Japan.
Oral administration of a single dose of triphenyltin compounds induces diabetes with decreased insulin secretion in rabbits and hamsters after 23 days without any morphological changes in pancreatic islets. In the present study, to test the possibility that the impaired insulin secretion induced by triphenyltin compounds could result from an impaired Ca2+ response in pancreatic ß-cells, we investigated the effect of triphenyltin-chloride (TPTCl) administration on the changes in the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) induced by secretagogues, such as glucose, high K+, gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), and acetylcholine (ACh) in hamster pancreatic ß-cells. TPTCl administration caused partial suppression in 10 mM K+-induced rise in [Ca2+]i without suppressing the increase in [Ca2+]i evoked by 2050 mM K+. Administration of TPTCl strongly inhibited the rises in [Ca2+]i induced by 27.8 mM glucose, 100 µM ACh in the presence of 5.5 mM glucose, and by 100 nM GIP in the presence of 5.5 mM glucose. In the ACh-induced response, TPTCl administration strongly suppressed the late sustained phase, while weakly suppressing the initial rise in [Ca2+]i. TPTCl administration significantly suppressed the rise of cAMP content in islet cells induced by 100 nM GIP with 1 mM 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine in the presence of 5.5 mM glucose (P < 0.01, N = 511). TPTCl administration also impaired the insulin secretion in islet cells induced by 27.8 mM glucose, 100 nM GIP in the presence of 5.5 mM glucose, and 100 µM ACh in the presence of 5.5 mM glucose (P < 0.05, N = 916). We conclude that the pathology of triphenyltin-induced diabetes in hamsters involves a defect in cellular Ca2+ response due to a reduced Ca2+-influx through voltage-gated Ca2+ channels.
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