AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 265, Issue 6 E898-E905, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Differential regulation of intracellular glucose metabolism by glucose and insulin in human muscle

L. J. Mandarino, A. Consoli, A. Jain and D. E. Kelley
Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284.

Insulin and glucose stimulate glucose uptake in human muscle by different mechanisms. Insulin has well-known effects on glucose transport, glycogen synthesis, and glucose oxidation, but the effects of hyperglycemia on the intracellular routing of glucose are less well characterized. We used euglycemic and hyperglycemic clamps with leg balance measurements to determine how hyperglycemia affects skeletal muscle glucose storage, glycolysis, and glucose oxidation in normal human subjects. Glycogen synthase (GS) and pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) activities were determined using muscle biopsies. During basal insulin replacement, hyperglycemia (11.6 +/- 0.31 mM) increased leg muscle glucose uptake (0.522 +/- 0.129 vs. 0.261 +/- 0.071 mumol.min-1 x 100 ml leg tissue-1, P < 0.05), storage (0.159 +/- 0.082 vs. -0.061 +/- 0.055, P < 0.05), and oxidation (0.409 +/- 0.080 vs. 0.243 +/- 0.085, P < 0.05) compared with euglycemia (6.63 +/- 0.33 mM). The increase in basal glucose oxidation due to hyperglycemia was associated with increased muscle PDHC activity (0.499 +/- 0.087 vs. 0.276 +/- 0.049, P < 0.05). However, the increase in leg glucose storage was not accompanied by an increase in muscle GS activity. During hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia (11.9 +/- 0.49 mM) also caused an additional increase in leg glucose uptake over euglycemia (6.14 +/- 0.42 mM) alone (5.75 +/- 1.25 vs. 3.75 +/- 0.58 mumol.min-1 x 100 ml leg-1, P < 0.05). In this case the major intracellular effect of hyperglycemia was to increase glucose storage (5.03 +/- 1.16 vs. 2.39 +/- 0.37, P < 0.05). At hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia had no effect on muscle GS or PDHC activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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