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1 Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College f Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
2 Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
3 University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tdavis{at}bcm.edu.
Sepsis promotes insulin resistance and reduces protein synthesis in skeletal muscle of adults. The effect of sepsis on insulin-stimulated muscle protein synthesis has not been determined in neonates, a highly anabolic population that is uniquely sensitive to insulin. Overnight fasted neonatal pigs were infused for 8 h with endotoxin [LPS, 0 and 10 µg.kg-1.hr-1]. Glucose and amino acids were maintained at fasting levels, insulin was clamped either at fasting or fed (2 or 10 µU/ml) levels, and fractional protein synthesis rates were determined at the end of the infusion. LPS infusion induced a septic-like state as indicated by a sustained elevation in body temperature, heart rate, and cortisol. At fasting insulin levels, LPS reduced fractional protein synthesis rates in gastrocnemius muscle (-26%), but had no effect on the masseter and heart. By contrast, LPS stimulated liver protein synthesis (+28%). Increasing insulin to fed levels accelerated protein synthesis rates in gastrocnemius (controls by +38%; LPS by +60%), masseter (controls by +50%; LPS by +43%), heart (controls by +34%; LPS by +40%), and diaphragm (controls by +54%; LPS by +29%), and the response to insulin was similar in LPS and controls. Insulin did not alter protein synthesis in liver, kidney, or jejunum in either group. These findings suggest that acute endotoxemia lowers basal fasting muscle protein synthesis in neonates, but does not alter the response of protein synthesis to insulin.
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