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1 Department of Diabetes Biochemistry and Metabolism, Novo Nordisk, DK-2760 Maaloev, Denmark; 2 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033; and 3 Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, Texas 77030
It has been proposed that the
glycogenolytic and gluconeogenic pathways contributing to endogenous
glucose production are interrelated. Thus a change in one source of
glucose 6-phosphate might be compensated for by an inverse change in
the other pathway. We therefore investigated the effects of
1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (DAB), a potent glycogen
phosphorylase inhibitor, on glucose production in fasted conscious
dogs. When dogs were treated acutely with high glucagon, glucose
production rose from 1.93 ± 0.14 to 3.07 ± 0.37 mg · kg
1 · min
1
(P < 0.01). When dogs were treated acutely with DAB in
addition to high glucagon infusion, the stimulation of the
glycogenolytic rate was completely suppressed. Glucose production rose
from 1.85 ± 0.20 to 2.41 ± 0.17 mg · kg
1 · min
1
(P < 0.05), which was due to the increase in
gluconeogenesis from 0.93 ± 0.09 to 1.54 ± 0.08 mg · kg
1 · min
1
(P < 0.001). In conclusion, infusion of DAB inhibited
glycogenolysis; however, the absolute contribution of gluconeogenesis
to glucose production was not affected. These results suggest that
inhibition of glycogenolysis could be an effective antidiabetic treatment.
type 2 diabetes; glycogen phosphorylase; 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol
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