AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 263, Issue 4 E688-E695, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of differing insulin levels on response to equivalent hypoglycemia in conscious dogs

S. N. Davis, R. Dobbins, C. Tarumi, C. Colburn, D. Neal and A. D. Cherrington
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0615.

The aim of this study was to determine if differing concentrations of insulin can modify the counterregulatory response to equivalent hypoglycemia. Insulin was infused intraportally into normal 18-h-fasted conscious dogs at 2 (low, n = 6) or 8 mU.kg-1.min-1 (high, n = 7) on separate occasions. This resulted in steady-state arterial insulin levels of 80 +/- 8 and 610 +/- 55 microU/ml, respectively. Glucose was infused during the high dose to maintain plasma glucose similar to low (50 +/- 1 mg/dl). Despite similar plasma glucose levels, epinephrine (2,589 +/- 260, 806 +/- 180 pg/ml), norepinephrine (535 +/- 60, 303 +/- 55 pg/ml), cortisol (12.1 +/- 1.5, 5.8 +/- 1.2 micrograms/dl), and pancreatic polypeptide (1,198 +/- 150, 598 +/- 250 pg/ml) were all increased in the presence of high-dose insulin (P < 0.05). Glucagon levels were similar during both insulin infusions. Hepatic glucose production, measured with [3-3H]-glucose, rose from 2.6 +/- 0.2 to 4.7 +/- 0.3 mg.kg-1.min-1 in response to high insulin (P < 0.01) but remained unchanged, 3.0 +/- 0.5 mg.kg-1.min-1, during low-dose infusions. Six hyperinsulinemic euglycemic control experiments (2 or 8 mU.kg-1.min-1, n = 3 in each) provided baseline data. By the final hour of the high-dose euglycemic clamps, cortisol (2.4 +/- 0.4 to 4.8 +/- 0.8 micrograms/dl) and norepinephrine (125 +/- 34 to 278 +/- 60 pg/ml) had increased (P < 0.05) compared with baseline. Plasma epinephrine levels remained unchanged during both series of euglycemic studies.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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