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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 260: E731-E735, 1991;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 260, Issue 5 E731-E735, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Differential effect of hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia on pathways of hepatic glycogen repletion

G. I. Shulman, R. A. DeFronzo and L. Rossetti
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.

To delineate the roles of hyperglycemia and insulin on the direct vs. indirect pathways of liver glycogen synthesis, we performed euglycemic (group I; n = 8), hyperglycemic (group II; n = 9), and euglycemic pharmacological hyperinsulinemic clamp studies (120 min) with an infusion of [1-13C]glucose in chronically catheterized conscious rats after a 24-h fast. Portal vein plasma glucose concentrations and portal vein plasma insulin concentrations, respectively, obtained at the end of the study in groups I-III were as follows: group I 110 +/- 4 mg/dl, 29 +/- 7 ng/ml; group II 219 +/- 7 mg/dl, 24 +/- 7 ng/ml; and group III 112 +/- 9 mg/dl, 174 +/- 25 ng/ml. Mean liver glycogen concentrations at the end of the three studies were 0.68 +/- 0.07, 1.22 +/- 0.08 (P less than 0.001 compared with groups I and III), and 0.60 +/- 0.17 g/100 g wet wt liver in groups I-III respectively, which yielded hepatic glycogen synthetic rates of 0.16 +/- 0.03, 0.41 +/- 0.04 (P less than 0.001 compared with groups I and III), and 0.13 +/- 0.08 mumol glucosyl U.g liver-1.min-1 in groups I-III, respectively. From the enrichments of 13C in the C-1 and C-6 positions of the glucosyl unit in glycogen compared with the enrichment in the C-1 position in portal vein glucose as determined by 13C- and 1H-NMR, the amount of glycogen synthesized by the direct pathway was calculated to be 18 +/- 2, 41 +/- 3 (P less than 0.0001 compared with groups I and III), and 17 +/- 3% in groups I-III, respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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