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Acute and chronic effects of glucose and carbachol on insulin secretion and phospholipase C activation: studies with diazoxide and atropine

¹Yale University School of Nursing; and ²Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism, New Haven, Connecticut

Submitted 6 April 2005 ; accepted in final form 10 August 2005

The acute and chronic effects of 20 mM glucose and 10 µM carbachol on -cell responses were investigated. Acute exposure of rat islets to 20 mM glucose increased glucose usage rates and resulted in a large insulin-secretory response during a dynamic perifusion. The secretory, but not the metabolic, effect of 20 mM glucose was abolished by simultaneous exposure to 100 µM diazoxide. Glucose (20 mM) significantly increased inositol phosphate (IP) accumulation, an index of phospholipase C (PLC) activation, from [³H]inositol-prelabeled islets. Diazoxide, but not atropine, abolished this effect as well. Unlike 20 mM glucose, 10 µM carbachol (in the presence of 5 mM glucose) increased IP accumulation but had no effect on insulin secretion or glucose (5 mM) metabolism. The IP effect was abolished by 50 µM atropine but not by diazoxide. Chronic 3-h exposure of islets to 20 mM glucose or 10 µM carbachol profoundly reduced both the insulin-secretory and PLC responses to a subsequent 20 mM glucose stimulus. The adverse effects of chronic glucose exposure were abolished by diazoxide but not by atropine. In contrast, the adverse effects of carbachol were abolished by atropine but not by diazoxide. Prior 3 h of exposure to 20 mM glucose or carbachol had no inhibitory effect on glucose metabolism. Significant secretory responses could be evoked from 20 mM glucose- or carbachol-pretreated islets by the inclusion of forskolin. These findings support the concept that an early event in the evolution of -cell desensitization is the impaired activation of islet PLC.

islets; desensitization; hyperglycemia

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