AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 251, Issue 3 334-E342, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Dose-response curves of effects of insulin on leucine kinetics in humans

P. Tessari, R. Trevisan, S. Inchiostro, G. Biolo, R. Nosadini, S. V. De Kreutzenberg, E. Duner, A. Tiengo and G. Crepaldi

To determine the effects of physiological and pharmacological insulin concentrations on leucine-carbon kinetics in vivo, eight postabsorptive normal volunteers were infused with L-[4,5-3H]leucine and alpha-[1-14C]ketoisocaproate (KIC). Insulin concentrations were sequentially raised from 8 +/- 1 to 43 +/- 6 and 101 +/- 14 and to 1,487 +/- 190 microU/ml, while maintaining euglycemia with adequate glucose infusions. At the end of each 140-min insulin-infusion period, steady-state estimates of leucine and KIC rates of appearance (Ra), KIC (approximately leucine-carbon) oxidation, nonoxidized leucine-carbon flux [an index of leucine incorporation into protein (Leu----P)], and leucine and KIC interconversion rates were obtained. After the three insulin infusions, leucine Ra decreased by a maximum of approximately 20%. KIC Ra decreased by a maximum of approximately 50%. The sum of leucine plus KIC Ra in the basal state was 2.59 +/- 0.24 mumol X kg-1 X min-1 and decreased by approximately 30% at the maximal insulin concentrations. KIC oxidation decreased by a maximum of approximately 65%. Leu----P did not increase after hyperinsulinemia. Interconversion rates were promptly and markedly suppressed by 50-70%. Leucine clearance increased by approximately 120%. We conclude that euglycemic hyperinsulinemia, at physiological and pharmacological concentrations, decreased leucine and KIC concentrations, leucine-carbon turnover and oxidation, and leucine and KIC interconversions in a dose-dependent manner in vivo.

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