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PI3K and AKT at the Interface of Signaling and Metabolism. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2022; 436:311-336. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06566-8_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Hauke S, Rada J, Tihanyi G, Schilling D, Schultz C. ATP is an essential autocrine factor for pancreatic β-cell signaling and insulin secretion. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15159. [PMID: 35001557 PMCID: PMC8743876 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023] Open
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ATP has been previously identified as an autocrine signaling factor that is co-released with insulin to modulate and propagate β-cell activity within islets of Langerhans. Here, we show that β-cell activity and insulin secretion essentially rely on the presence of extracellular ATP. For this, we monitored changes of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+ ]i oscillations) as an immediate read-out for insulin secretion in live cell experiments. Extensive washing of cells or depletion of extracellular ATP levels by recombinant apyrase reduced [Ca2+ ]i oscillations and insulin secretion in pancreatic cell lines and primary β-cells. Following ATP depletion, [Ca2+ ]i oscillations were stimulated by the replenishment of ATP in a concentration-dependent manner. Inhibition of endogenous ecto-ATP nucleotidases increased extracellular ATP levels, along with [Ca2+ ]i oscillations and insulin secretion, indicating that there is a constant supply of ATP to the extracellular space. Our combined results demonstrate that extracellular ATP is essential for β-cell activity. The presented work suggests extracellular ATPases as potential drug targets for the modulation of insulin release. We further found that exogenous fatty acids compensated for depleted extracellular ATP levels by the recovery of [Ca2+ ]i oscillations, indicating that autocrine factors mutually compensate for the loss of others. Thereby, our results contribute to a more detailed and complete understanding of the general role of autocrine signaling factors as a fundamental regulatory mechanism of β-cell activity and insulin secretion.
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- Sebastian Hauke
- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, USA
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Alassaf A, Ishahak M, Bowles A, Agarwal A. Microelectrode Array based Functional Testing of Pancreatic Islet Cells. MICROMACHINES 2020; 11:mi11050507. [PMID: 32429597 PMCID: PMC7281363 DOI: 10.3390/mi11050507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Electrophysiological techniques to characterize the functionality of islets of Langerhans have been limited to short-term, one-time recordings such as a patch clamp recording. We describe the use of microelectrode arrays (MEAs) to better understand the electrophysiology of dissociated islet cells in response to glucose in a real-time, non-invasive method over prolonged culture periods. Human islets were dissociated into singular cells and seeded onto MEA, which were cultured for up to 7 days. Immunofluorescent imaging revealed that several cellular subtypes of islets; β, δ, and γ cells were present after dissociation. At days 1, 3, 5, and 7 of culture, MEA recordings captured higher electrical activities of islet cells under 16.7 mM glucose (high glucose) than 1.1 mM glucose (low glucose) conditions. The fraction of the plateau phase (FOPP), which is the fraction of time with spiking activity recorded using the MEA, consistently showed distinguishably greater percentages of spiking activity with high glucose compared to the low glucose for all culture days. In parallel, glucose stimulated insulin secretion was measured revealing a diminished insulin response after day 3 of culture. Additionally, MEA spiking profiles were similar to the time course of insulin response when glucose concentration is switched from 1.1 to 16.7 mM. Our analyses suggest that extracellular recordings of dissociated islet cells using MEA is an effective approach to rapidly assess islet functionality, and could supplement standard assays such as glucose stimulate insulin response.
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- Ahmad Alassaf
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA; (A.A.); (M.I.); (A.B.)
- DJTMF Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
- Department of Medical Equipment Technology, Majmaah University, Al Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA; (A.A.); (M.I.); (A.B.)
- DJTMF Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA; (A.A.); (M.I.); (A.B.)
- DJTMF Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA; (A.A.); (M.I.); (A.B.)
- DJTMF Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +305-243-8925
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Calcium Signaling in ß-cell Physiology and Pathology: A Revisit. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20246110. [PMID: 31817135 PMCID: PMC6940736 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20246110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Pancreatic beta (β) cell dysfunction results in compromised insulin release and, thus, failed regulation of blood glucose levels. This forms the backbone of the development of diabetes mellitus (DM), a disease that affects a significant portion of the global adult population. Physiological calcium (Ca2+) signaling has been found to be vital for the proper insulin-releasing function of β-cells. Calcium dysregulation events can have a dramatic effect on the proper functioning of the pancreatic β-cells. The current review discusses the role of calcium signaling in health and disease in pancreatic β-cells and provides an in-depth look into the potential role of alterations in β-cell Ca2+ homeostasis and signaling in the development of diabetes and highlights recent work that introduced the current theories on the connection between calcium and the onset of diabetes.
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Controlling the excess and shortage of energy is a fundamental task for living organisms. Diabetes is a representative metabolic disease caused by the malfunction of energy homeostasis. The islets of Langerhans in the pancreas release long-range messengers, hormones, into the blood to regulate the homeostasis of the primary energy fuel, glucose. The hormone and glucose levels in the blood show rhythmic oscillations with a characteristic period of 5-10 min, and the functional roles of the oscillations are not clear. Each islet has [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] cells that secrete glucagon and insulin, respectively. These two counter-regulatory hormones appear sufficient to increase and decrease glucose levels. However, pancreatic islets have a third cell type, [Formula: see text] cells, which secrete somatostatin. The three cell populations have a unique spatial organization in islets, and they interact to perturb their hormone secretions. The mini-organs of islets are scattered throughout the exocrine pancreas. Considering that the human pancreas contains approximately a million islets, the coordination of hormone secretion from the multiple sources of islets and cells within the islets should have a significant effect on human physiology. In this review, we introduce the hierarchical organization of tripartite cell networks, and recent biophysical modeling to systematically understand the oscillations and interactions of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] cells. Furthermore, we discuss the functional roles and clinical implications of hormonal oscillations and their phase coordination for the diagnosis of type II diabetes.
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- Taegeun Song
- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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Haeusler RA, McGraw TE, Accili D. Biochemical and cellular properties of insulin receptor signalling. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2018; 19:31-44. [PMID: 28974775 PMCID: PMC5894887 DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2017.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 413] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The mechanism of insulin action is a central theme in biology and medicine. In addition to the rather rare condition of insulin deficiency caused by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cells, genetic and acquired abnormalities of insulin action underlie the far more common conditions of type 2 diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance. The latter predisposes to diseases ranging from hypertension to Alzheimer disease and cancer. Hence, understanding the biochemical and cellular properties of insulin receptor signalling is arguably a priority in biomedical research. In the past decade, major progress has led to the delineation of mechanisms of glucose transport, lipid synthesis, storage and mobilization. In addition to direct effects of insulin on signalling kinases and metabolic enzymes, the discovery of mechanisms of insulin-regulated gene transcription has led to a reassessment of the general principles of insulin action. These advances will accelerate the discovery of new treatment modalities for diabetes.
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- Rebecca A Haeusler
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, Departments of Biochemistry and Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Department of Medicine, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Dutta D, Hickey K, Salifu M, Fauer C, Willingham C, Stabenfeldt SE. Spatiotemporal presentation of exogenous SDF-1 with PLGA nanoparticles modulates SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling axis in the rodent cortex. Biomater Sci 2017; 5:1640-1651. [PMID: 28703822 PMCID: PMC5588897 DOI: 10.1039/c7bm00489c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) and its key receptor CXCR4 have been implicated in directing cellular recruitment for several pathological/disease conditions thus also gained considerable attention for regenerative medicine. One regenerative approach includes sustained release of SDF-1 to stimulate prolonged stem cell recruitment. However, the impact of SDF-1 sustained release on the endogenous SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling axis is largely unknown as auto-regulatory mechanisms typically dictate cytokine/receptor signaling. We hypothesize that spatiotemporal presentation of exogenous SDF-1 is a key factor in achieving long-term manipulation of endogenous SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling. Here in the present study, we sought to probe our hypothesis using a transgenic mouse model to contrast the spatial activation of endogenous SDF-1 and CXCR4 in response to exogenous SDF-1 injected in bolus or controlled release (PLGA nanoparticles) form in the adult rodent cortex. Our data suggests that the manner of SDF-1 presentation significantly affected initial CXCR4 cellular activation/recruitment despite having similar protein payloads over the first 24 h (∼30 ng for both bolus and sustained release groups). Yet, one week post-injection, this response was negligible. Therefore, the transient nature CXCR4 recruitment/activation in response to bolus or controlled release SDF-1 indicated that cytokine/receptor auto-regulatory mechanisms may demand more complex release profiles (i.e. delayed and/or pulsed release) to achieve sustained cellular response.
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- D Dutta
- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Park DH, Song T, Hoang DT, Xu J, Jo J. A Local Counter-Regulatory Motif Modulates the Global Phase of Hormonal Oscillations. Sci Rep 2017; 7:1602. [PMID: 28487511 PMCID: PMC5431656 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01806-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Counter-regulatory elements maintain dynamic equilibrium ubiquitously in living systems. The most prominent example, which is critical to mammalian survival, is that of pancreatic α and β cells producing glucagon and insulin for glucose homeostasis. These cells are not found in a single gland but are dispersed in multiple micro-organs known as the islets of Langerhans. Within an islet, these two reciprocal cell types interact with each other and with an additional cell type: the δ cell. By testing all possible motifs governing the interactions of these three cell types, we found that a unique set of positive/negative intra-islet interactions between different islet cell types functions not only to reduce the superficially wasteful zero-sum action of glucagon and insulin but also to enhance/suppress the synchronization of hormone secretions between islets under high/normal glucose conditions. This anti-symmetric interaction motif confers effective controllability for network (de)synchronization.
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- Dong-Ho Park
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea.,Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States of America.,Department of Natural Sciences, Quang Binh University, Dong Hoi, Quang Binh, 510000, Vietnam
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea.,Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea. .,Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Korea.
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Castiello FR, Heileman K, Tabrizian M. Microfluidic perfusion systems for secretion fingerprint analysis of pancreatic islets: applications, challenges and opportunities. LAB ON A CHIP 2016; 16:409-31. [PMID: 26732665 DOI: 10.1039/c5lc01046b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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A secretome signature is a heterogeneous profile of secretions present in a single cell type. From the secretome signature a smaller panel of proteins, namely a secretion fingerprint, can be chosen to feasibly monitor specific cellular activity. Based on a thorough appraisal of the literature, this review explores the possibility of defining and using a secretion fingerprint to gauge the functionality of pancreatic islets of Langerhans. It covers the state of the art regarding microfluidic perfusion systems used in pancreatic islet research. Candidate analytical tools to be integrated within microfluidic perfusion systems for dynamic secretory fingerprint monitoring were identified. These analytical tools include patch clamp, amperometry/voltametry, impedance spectroscopy, field effect transistors and surface plasmon resonance. Coupled with these tools, microfluidic devices can ultimately find applications in determining islet quality for transplantation, islet regeneration and drug screening of therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes.
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- F Rafael Castiello
- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.
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Sun HQ, Li SX, Chen FB, Zhang Y, Li P, Jin M, Sun Y, Wang F, Mi WF, Shi L, Yue JL, Yang FD, Lu L. Diurnal neurobiological alterations after exposure to clozapine in first-episode schizophrenia patients. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016; 64:108-16. [PMID: 26630391 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2015] [Revised: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Irregular circadian rhythm and some of its most characteristic symptoms are frequently observed in patients with schizophrenia. However, changes in the expression of clock genes or neuropeptides that are related to the regulation of circadian rhythm may influence the susceptibility to recurrence after antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenia, but this possibility has not been investigated. METHODS Blood samples were collected from 15 healthy male controls and 13 male schizophrenia patients at 4h intervals for 24h before and after treatment with clozapine for 8 weeks. The outcome measures included the relative expression of clock gene mRNA PERIOD1 (PER1), PERIOD2 (PER2), PERIOD3 (PER3) and the levels of plasma cortisol, orexin, and insulin. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, schizophrenia patients presented disruptions in diurnal rhythms of the expression of PER1, PER3, and NPAS2 and the release of orexin, accompanied by a delayed phase in the expression of PER2, decreases in PER3 and NPAS2 expression, and an increase in cortisol levels at baseline. Several of these disruptions (i.e., in PER1 and PER3 expression) persisted after 8 weeks of clozapine treatment, similar to the decreases in the 24-h expression of PER3 and NPAS2. Clozapine treatment for 8 weeks significantly decreased the 24-h levels of PER2 and increased the 24-h levels of insulin. CONCLUSION These persistent neurobiological changes that occur after 8 weeks of clozapine treatment may contribute to the vulnerability to recurrence and efficacy of long-term maintenance treatment in schizophrenia.
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- Hong-Qiang Sun
- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- 102 Military Hospital of China, Changzhou 213000, China
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- 102 Military Hospital of China, Changzhou 213000, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China; 102 Military Hospital of China, Changzhou 213000, China
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- 102 Military Hospital of China, Changzhou 213000, China
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- National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Beijing Hui-Long-Guan Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100096, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China; National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Beijing Hui-Long-Guan Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100096, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of Mental Health and Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China; National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorder, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
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Insulin is a key hormone controlling metabolic homeostasis. Loss or dysfunction of pancreatic β-cells lead to the release of insufficient insulin to cover the organism needs, promoting diabetes development. Since dietary nutrients influence the activity of β-cells, their inadequate intake, absorption and/or utilisation can be detrimental. This review will highlight the physiological and pathological effects of nutrients on insulin secretion and discuss the underlying mechanisms. Glucose uptake and metabolism in β-cells trigger insulin secretion. This effect of glucose is potentiated by amino acids and fatty acids, as well as by entero-endocrine hormones and neuropeptides released by the digestive tract in response to nutrients. Glucose controls also basal and compensatory β-cell proliferation and, along with fatty acids, regulates insulin biosynthesis. If in the short-term nutrients promote β-cell activities, chronic exposure to nutrients can be detrimental to β-cells and causes reduced insulin transcription, increased basal secretion and impaired insulin release in response to stimulatory glucose concentrations, with a consequent increase in diabetes risk. Likewise, suboptimal early-life nutrition (e.g. parental high-fat or low-protein diet) causes altered β-cell mass and function in adulthood. The mechanisms mediating nutrient-induced β-cell dysfunction include transcriptional, post-transcriptional and translational modifications of genes involved in insulin biosynthesis and secretion, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, cell differentiation, proliferation and survival. Altered expression of these genes is partly caused by changes in non-coding RNA transcripts induced by unbalanced nutrient uptake. A better understanding of the mechanisms leading to β-cell dysfunction will be critical to improve treatment and find a cure for diabetes.
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Heileman K, Daoud J, Hasilo C, Gasparrini M, Paraskevas S, Tabrizian M. Microfluidic platform for assessing pancreatic islet functionality through dielectric spectroscopy. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2015; 9:044125. [PMID: 26339324 PMCID: PMC4552695 DOI: 10.1063/1.4929652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 08/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Human pancreatic islets are seldom assessed for dynamic responses to external stimuli. Thus, the elucidation of human islet functionality would provide insights into the progression of diabetes mellitus, evaluation of preparations for clinical transplantation, as well as for the development of novel therapeutics. The objective of this study was to develop a microfluidic platform for in vitro islet culture, allowing the multi-parametric investigation of islet response to chemical and biochemical stimuli. This was accomplished through the fabrication and implementation of a microfluidic platform that allowed the perifusion of islet culture while integrating real-time monitoring using impedance spectroscopy, through microfabricated, interdigitated electrodes located along the microchamber arrays. Real-time impedance measurements provide important dielectric parameters, such as cell membrane capacitance and cytoplasmic conductivity, representing proliferation, differentiation, viability, and functionality. The perifusion of varying glucose concentrations and monitoring of the resulting impedance of pancreatic islets were performed as proof-of-concept validation of the lab-on-chip platform. This novel technique to elucidate the underlying mechanisms that dictate islet functionality is presented, providing new information regarding islet function that could improve the evaluation of islet preparations for transplantation. In addition, it will lead to a better understanding of fundamental diabetes-related islet dysfunction and the development of therapeutics through evaluation of potential drug effects.
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- K Heileman
- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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Hong H, Jo J, Sin SJ. Stable and flexible system for glucose homeostasis. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:032711. [PMID: 24125298 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.032711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2013] [Revised: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Pancreatic islets, controlling glucose homeostasis, consist of α, β, and δ cells. It has been observed that α and β cells generate out-of-phase synchronization in the release of glucagon and insulin, counter-regulatory hormones for increasing and decreasing glucose levels, while β and δ cells produce in-phase synchronization in the release of the insulin and somatostatin. Pieces of interactions between the islet cells have been observed for a long time, although their physiological role as a whole has not been explored yet. We model the synchronized hormone pulses of islets with coupled phase oscillators that incorporate the observed cellular interactions. The integrated model shows that the interaction from β to δ cells, of which sign is a subject of controversy, should be positive to reproduce the in-phase synchronization between β and δ cells. The model also suggests that δ cells help the islet system flexibly respond to changes of glucose environment.
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- Hyunsuk Hong
- Department of Physics and Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea
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Shi J, McLamore ES, Porterfield DM. Nanomaterial based self-referencing microbiosensors for cell and tissue physiology research. Biosens Bioelectron 2013; 40:127-34. [PMID: 22889647 PMCID: PMC3604890 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2012.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2012] [Revised: 06/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Physiological studies require sensitive tools to directly quantify transport kinetics in the cell/tissue spatial domain under physiological conditions. Although biosensors are capable of measuring concentration, their applications in physiological studies are limited due to the relatively low sensitivity, excessive drift/noise, and inability to quantify analyte transport. Nanomaterials significantly improve the electrochemical transduction of microelectrodes, and make the construction of highly sensitive microbiosensors possible. Furthermore, a novel biosensor modality, self-referencing (SR), enables direct measurement of real-time flux and drift/noise subtraction. SR microbiosensors based on nanomaterials have been used to measure the real-time analyte transport in several cell/tissue studies coupled with various stimulators/inhibitors. These studies include: glucose uptake in pancreatic β cells, cancer cells, muscle tissues, intestinal tissues and P. Aeruginosa biofilms; glutamate flux near neuronal cells; and endogenous indole-3-acetic acid flux near the surface of Zea mays roots. Results from the SR studies provide important insights into cancer, diabetes, nutrition, neurophysiology, environmental and plant physiology studies under dynamic physiological conditions, demonstrating that the SR microbiosensors are an extremely valuable tool for physiology research.
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- Jin Shi
- Birck-Bindley Physiological Sensing Facility, Purdue University, United States
- Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, United States
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- Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of Florida, United States
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- Birck-Bindley Physiological Sensing Facility, Purdue University, United States
- Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, United States
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, United States
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, United States
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Recent work has demonstrated that the route of administration affects the pharmacokinetics and biological activity of peptides. For example, the physiological profile of insulin consists of basal and prandial components with a small-scale oscillatory element. Insulin is used more efficiently when the pharmacokinetic profile mimics features of physiological release. Noninvasive administration of insulin by oral, transdermal, nasal and pulmonary routes resembles the relatively sharp peak and short duration of exposure of prandial release. The route of administration per se, can affect the response by avoiding first-pass metabolism or perhaps altering the timing in which the peptide reaches different sets of receptors. GLP-I delivered by injection and inhalation produces different side effect profiles. Nonclinical studies on two potential treatments for obesity, oxyntomodulin and PYY 3-36, are also presented to illustrate the relationship between exposure and effect as functions of route of administration.
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Morris C, Banks DJ, Gaweda L, Scott S, Zhu XX, Panico M, Georgiou P, Toumazou C. A robust microfluidic in vitro cell perifusion system. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012; 2011:8412-5. [PMID: 22256299 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2011.6092075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We present here a robust microfluidic cell perifusion device for in vitro primary tissue cell secretion studies. This system increases the sample concentration to perifusion volume ratio by an order of magnitude compared with standard multi-well plate static incubation assays. Further, this device achieves physiologically relevant flow rates, pressures, and temperature. It has been manufactured with typical machining facilities, principally drilling and milling. No specialist clean room equipment is required to replicate it. We show its capability here with hormone perifusion experiments on primary pancreatic tissue from mice. This device can increase cell secretion concentrations by up to a factor of 20, allowing for the first time the direct measurement of islet glucagon using mass spectrometry.
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- Christina Morris
- The Centre for Biologically-Inspired Technology, Bessemer Building, Level 4, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ.
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Lee D, Wang Y, Mendoza-Elias JE, Adewola AF, Harvat T, Kinzer K, Qi M, Gutierrez D, Eddington DT, Oberholzer J. Dual microfluidic perifusion networks for concurrent islet perifusion and optical imaging. Biomed Microdevices 2012; 14:7-16. [PMID: 21850483 PMCID: PMC3696955 DOI: 10.1007/s10544-011-9580-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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This study explores a new class of duplex microfluidic device which utilizes a dual perifusion network to simultaneously perform live-cell optical imaging of physiological activities and study insulin release kinetics on two islet populations. This device also incorporates on-chip staggered herringbone mixers (SHMs) to increase mixing efficiency and facilitate the generation of user-defined chemical gradients. Mouse islets are used to simultaneously measure dynamic insulin release, changes in mitochondrial potentials, and calcium influx in response to insulin secretagogues (glucose and tolbutamide), and show a high signal-to-noise ratio and spatiotemporal resolution of all measured parameters for both perifusion chambers. This system has many potential applications for studying β-cell physiology and pathophysiology, as well as for therapeutic drug screening. This dual perifusion device is not limited to islet studies and could easily be applied to other tissues and cells without major modifications.
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- Dongyoung Lee
- Department of Transplant/Surgery
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Transplant/Surgery
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Transplant/Surgery
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Transplant/Surgery
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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Seino S, Shibasaki T, Minami K. Dynamics of insulin secretion and the clinical implications for obesity and diabetes. J Clin Invest 2011; 121:2118-25. [PMID: 21633180 DOI: 10.1172/jci45680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Insulin secretion is a highly dynamic process regulated by various factors including nutrients, hormones, and neuronal inputs. The dynamics of insulin secretion can be studied at different levels: the single β cell, pancreatic islet, whole pancreas, and the intact organism. Studies have begun to analyze cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying dynamics of insulin secretion. This review focuses on our current understanding of the dynamics of insulin secretion in vitro and in vivo and discusses their clinical relevance.
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- Susumu Seino
- Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
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Application of microfluidic technology to pancreatic islet research: first decade of endeavor. Bioanalysis 2011; 2:1729-44. [PMID: 21083325 DOI: 10.4155/bio.10.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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β-cells respond to blood glucose by secreting insulin to maintain glucose homeostasis. Perifusion enables manipulation of biological and chemical cues in elucidating the mechanisms of β-cell physiology. Recently, microfluidic devices made of polydimethylsiloxane and Borofloat glass have been developed as miniaturized perifusion setups and demonstrated distinct advantages over conventional techniques in resolving rapid secretory and metabolic waveforms intrinsic to β-cells. In order to enhance sensing and monitoring capabilities, these devices have been integrated with analytical tools to increase assay throughput. The spatio-temporal resolutions of these analyses have been improved through enhanced flow control, valves and compartmentalization. For the first time, this review provides an overview of current devices used in islet studies and analyzes their strengths and experimental suitability. To realize the potential of microfluidic islet applications, it is essential to bridge the gap in design and application between engineers and biologists through the creation of standardized bioassays and user-friendly interfaces.
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Serre-Beinier V, Bosco D, Zulianello L, Charollais A, Caille D, Charpantier E, Gauthier BR, Diaferia GR, Giepmans BN, Lupi R, Marchetti P, Deng S, Buhler L, Berney T, Cirulli V, Meda P. Cx36 makes channels coupling human pancreatic beta-cells, and correlates with insulin expression. Hum Mol Genet 2009; 18:428-39. [PMID: 19000992 PMCID: PMC2638800 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Previous studies have documented that the insulin-producing beta-cells of laboratory rodents are coupled by gap junction channels made solely of the connexin36 (Cx36) protein, and have shown that loss of this protein desynchronizes beta-cells, leading to secretory defects reminiscent of those observed in type 2 diabetes. Since human islets differ in several respects from those of laboratory rodents, we have now screened human pancreas, and islets isolated thereof, for expression of a variety of connexin genes, tested whether the cognate proteins form functional channels for islet cell exchanges, and assessed whether this expression changes with beta-cell function in islets of control and type 2 diabetics. Here, we show that (i) different connexin isoforms are differentially distributed in the exocrine and endocrine parts of the human pancreas; (ii) human islets express at the transcript level different connexin isoforms; (iii) the membrane of beta-cells harbors detectable levels of gap junctions made of Cx36; (iv) this protein is concentrated in lipid raft domains of the beta-cell membrane where it forms gap junctions; (v) Cx36 channels allow for the preferential exchange of cationic molecules between human beta-cells; (vi) the levels of Cx36 mRNA correlated with the expression of the insulin gene in the islets of both control and type 2 diabetics. The data show that Cx36 is a native protein of human pancreatic islets, which mediates the coupling of the insulin-producing beta-cells, and contributes to control beta-cell function by modulating gene expression.
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- Cell Isolation and Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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- Islet Research Laboratory, The Whittier Institute for Diabetes, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Surgical Research Unit, Department of Surgery
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- Cell Isolation and Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Islet Research Laboratory, The Whittier Institute for Diabetes, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva School of Medicine, CMU 1, rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, CH, Switzerland
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Torres N, Noriega L, Tovar AR. Nutrient modulation of insulin secretion. VITAMINS AND HORMONES 2009; 80:217-44. [PMID: 19251040 DOI: 10.1016/s0083-6729(08)00609-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The presence of different nutrients regulates the beta-cell response to secrete insulin to maintain glucose in the physiological range and appropriate levels of fuels in different organs and tissues. Glucose is the only nutrient secretagogue capable of promoting alone the release of insulin release. The mechanisms of Insulin secretion are dependent or independent of the closure of ATP-sensitive K(+) channels. In addition, insulin secretion in response to glucose and other nutrients is modulated by several hormones as incretins, glucagon, and leptin. Fatty acids (FAs), amino acids, and keto acids influence secretion as well. The exact mechanism for which nutrients induce insulin secretion is complicated because nutrient signaling shows one of the most complex transduction systems, which exists for the reason that nutrient have to be metabolized. FAs in the absence of glucose induce FA oxidation and insulin secretion in a lesser extent. However, FAs in the presence of glucose produce high concentration of malonyl-CoA that repress FA oxidation and increase the formation of LC-CoA amplifying the insulin release. Long-term exposure to fatty acids and glucose results in glucolipotoxicity and decreases in insulin release. The amino acid pattern produced after the consumption of a dietary protein regulates insulin secretion by generating anaplerotic substrates that stimulates ATP synthesis or by activating specific signal transduction mediated by mTOR, AMPK, and SIRT4 or modulating the expression of genes involved in insulin secretion. Finally, dietary bioactive compounds such as isoflavones play an important role in the regulation of insulin secretion.
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- Nimbe Torres
- Departamento de Fisiología de la Nutrición, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Vasco de Quiroga, Mexico DF 14000, Mexico
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Schmitz O, Rungby J, Edge L, Juhl CB. On high-frequency insulin oscillations. Ageing Res Rev 2008; 7:301-5. [PMID: 18583199 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2008.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2008] [Revised: 04/24/2008] [Accepted: 04/24/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Insulin is released in a pulsatile manner, which results in oscillatory concentrations in blood. The oscillatory secretion improves release control and enhances the hormonal action. Insulin oscillates with a slow ultradian periodicity (approximately 140 min) and a high-frequency periodicity (approximately 6-10 min). Only the latter is reviewed in this article. At least 75% of the insulin secretion is released in a pulsatile manner. Individuals prone to developing diabetes or with overt type 2 diabetes are characterized by irregular oscillations of plasma insulin. Many factors have impact on insulin pulsatility such as age, insulin resistance and glycemic level. In addition, tiny glucose oscillations are capable of entraining insulin oscillations in healthy people in contrast to type 2 diabetic individuals emphasizing a profound disruption of the beta-cells in type 2 diabetes to sense or respond to physiological glucose excursions. A crucial question is how approximately 1,000,000 islets, each containing from a few to several thousand beta-cells, can be coordinated to secrete insulin in a pulsatile manner. This is blatantly a very complex operation to control involving an intra-pancreatic neural network, an intra-islet communication and metabolic oscillations in the beta-cell itself. Overnight beta-cell rest, e.g. during somatostatin administration, improves the disordered pulsatile insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes. Acute as well as long-term administration of sulphonylureas (SU) leads to substantial amplification (approximately 50%) of the pulsatile insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes. This is probably cardinal in terms of governing the hepatic glucose release in type 2 diabetes. Whether sulfonylureas also improve the ability of the beta-cells to sense glucose fluctuations remains to be explored. Thiazolidinediones reduce the pulsatile insulin secretion without affecting regularity, but appear to improve the ability of the beta-cell to be entrained by small glucose excursions. Finally, similar to SUs, the incretin hormone GLP-1 also results in an augmented pulsatile burst mass in both healthy and diabetic individuals, in the latter group, however, without influencing the disorderliness of pulses. This review will briefly describe the high-frequency insulin pulsatility during physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions as well as the influence of some hypoglycemic compounds on the insulin oscillations.
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- Ole Schmitz
- Department of Diabetes, University Hospital of Aarhus and Institute of Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Nittala A, Wang X. The hyperbolic effect of density and strength of inter beta-cell coupling on islet bursting: a theoretical investigation. Theor Biol Med Model 2008; 5:17. [PMID: 18673579 PMCID: PMC2538510 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-5-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2008] [Accepted: 08/03/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Insulin, the principal regulating hormone of blood glucose, is released through the bursting of the pancreatic islets. Increasing evidence indicates the importance of islet morphostructure in its function, and the need of a quantitative investigation. Recently we have studied this problem from the perspective of islet bursting of insulin, utilizing a new 3D hexagonal closest packing (HCP) model of islet structure that we have developed. Quantitative non-linear dependence of islet function on its structure was found. In this study, we further investigate two key structural measures: the number of neighboring cells that each beta-cell is coupled to, nc, and the coupling strength, gc. RESULTS BETA-cell clusters of different sizes with number of beta-cells nbeta ranging from 1-343, nc from 0-12, and gc from 0-1000 pS, were simulated. Three functional measures of islet bursting characteristics--fraction of bursting beta-cells fb, synchronization index lambda, and bursting period Tb, were quantified. The results revealed a hyperbolic dependence on the combined effect of nc and gc. From this we propose to define a dimensionless cluster coupling index or CCI, as a composite measure for islet morphostructural integrity. We show that the robustness of islet oscillatory bursting depends on CCI, with all three functional measures fb, lambda and Tb increasing monotonically with CCI when it is small, and plateau around CCI = 1. CONCLUSION CCI is a good islet function predictor. It has the potential of linking islet structure and function, and providing insight to identify therapeutic targets for the preservation and restoration of islet beta-cell mass and function.
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- Aparna Nittala
- Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes & Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Research Institute of the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Haus E. Chronobiology in the endocrine system. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2007; 59:985-1014. [PMID: 17804113 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2007.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2006] [Accepted: 01/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Biological signaling occurs in a complex web with participation and interaction of the central nervous system, the autonomous nervous system, the endocrine glands, peripheral endocrine tissues including the intestinal tract and adipose tissue, and the immune system. All of these show an intricate time structure with rhythms and pulsatile variations in multiple frequencies. Circadian (about 24-hour) and circannual (about 1-year) rhythms are kept in step with the cyclic environmental surrounding by the timing and length of the daily light span. Rhythmicity of many endocrine variables is essential for their efficacy and, even in some instances, for the qualitative nature of their effects. Indeed, the continuous administration of certain hormones and their synthetic analogues may show substantially different effects than expected. In the design of drug-delivery systems and treatment schedules involving directly or indirectly the endocrine system, consideration of the human time organization is essential. A large amount of information on the endocrine time structure has accumulated, some of which is discussed in this review.
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- Erhard Haus
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Health Partners Medical Group, Regions Hospital, 640 Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101, USA.
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Quesada I, Todorova MG, Alonso-Magdalena P, Beltrá M, Carneiro EM, Martin F, Nadal A, Soria B. Glucose induces opposite intracellular Ca2+ concentration oscillatory patterns in identified alpha- and beta-cells within intact human islets of Langerhans. Diabetes 2006; 55:2463-9. [PMID: 16936194 DOI: 10.2337/db06-0272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Homeostasis of blood glucose is mainly regulated by the coordinated secretion of glucagon and insulin from alpha- and beta-cells within the islets of Langerhans. The release of both hormones is Ca(2+) dependent. In the current study, we used confocal microscopy and immunocytochemistry to unequivocally characterize the glucose-induced Ca(2+) signals in alpha- and beta-cells within intact human islets. Extracellular glucose stimulation induced an opposite response in these two cell types. Although the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) in beta-cells remained stable at low glucose concentrations, alpha-cells exhibited an oscillatory [Ca(2+)](i) response. Conversely, the elevation of extracellular glucose elicited an oscillatory [Ca(2+)](i) pattern in beta-cells but inhibited low-glucose-induced [Ca(2+)](i) signals in alpha-cells. These Ca(2+) signals were synchronic among beta-cells grouped in clusters within the islet, although they were not coordinated among the whole beta-cell population. The response of alpha-cells was totally asynchronic. Therefore, both the alpha- and beta-cell populations within human islets did not work as a syncitium in response to glucose. A deeper knowledge of alpha- and beta-cell behavior within intact human islets is important to better understand the physiology of the human endocrine pancreas and may be useful to select high-quality islets for transplantation.
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- Ivan Quesada
- Institute of Bioengineering, Miguel Hernandez University, Ctra. N-332, Km. 87, 03550 Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain.
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Grapengiesser E, Salehi A, Qader SS, Hellman B. Glucose induces glucagon release pulses antisynchronous with insulin and sensitive to purinoceptor inhibition. Endocrinology 2006; 147:3472-7. [PMID: 16614082 DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Both increase of the glucose concentration and activation of purinoceptors are known to affect pancreatic alpha-cells. Effects obtained with various purino derivatives at 2.8 and 8.3 mmol/liter glucose have been taken to indicate that external ATP is less potent than adenosine as a stimulator of glucagon release. However, when making a corresponding comparison at 20 mmol/liter glucose, we observed marked stimulation of glucagon release from isolated rat islets with 100 micromol/liter adenosine-5-O-2-thiodiphosphate but inhibition with 10 micromol/liter adenosine. Analyses of 30-sec samples of perfusate from rat pancreas indicated that a rise of the glucose concentration from 3 to 20 mmol/liter rapidly induces a glucagon peak followed by regular 4- to 5-min pulses. The glucagon pulses preceded those of insulin with a phase shift (1.8 +/- 0.1 min) near half the interpeak interval. Because of the antisynchrony, the maximal glucagon effect on liver cells will be manifested during periods with low concentrations of insulin. In support for the idea that neural P2Y(1) receptors are important for coordinating the secretory activity of the islets, both the insulin and glucagon pulses disappeared in the presence of the purinoceptor inhibitor MRS 2179 (10 micromol/liter). However, in contrast to what was observed for insulin, MRS 2179 lowered average glucagon release to the level of the oscillatory nadirs.
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- Eva Grapengiesser
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Biomedicum Box 571, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden
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Meier JJ, Kjems LL, Veldhuis JD, Lefèbvre P, Butler PC. Postprandial suppression of glucagon secretion depends on intact pulsatile insulin secretion: further evidence for the intraislet insulin hypothesis. Diabetes 2006; 55:1051-6. [PMID: 16567528 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.55.04.06.db05-1449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Type 2 diabetes is characterized by an approximately 60% loss of beta-cell mass, a marked defect in postprandial insulin secretion, and a failure to suppress postprandial glucagon concentrations. It is possible that postprandial hyperglucagonemia in type 2 diabetes is due to impaired postprandial insulin secretion. To address this, we studied eight adult Goettingen minipigs before and after an approximately 60% reduction in beta-cell mass induced by alloxan. Pigs were studied fasting and after ingestion of a mixed meal. Insulin and glucagon secretion were determined by deconvolution of blood hormone concentrations measured at 1-min intervals. The relationship between insulin and glucagon release was analyzed using cross-correlation and forward versus reverse cross-approximate entropy. We report that glucagon and insulin were secreted in approximately 4-min pulses. Prealloxan, postprandial insulin secretion drove an approximately 20% suppression of glucagon concentrations (P < 0.01), through inhibition of glucagon pulse mass. The alloxan-induced approximately 60% deficit in beta-cell mass lead to an approximately 70% deficit in postprandial insulin secretion and loss of the postprandial insulin-driven suppression of glucagon secretion. We conclude that postprandial hyperglucagonemia in type 2 diabetes is likely due to loss of intraislet postprandial suppression of glucagon secretion by insulin.
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- Juris J Meier
- Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, 24-130 Warren Hall, 900 Veteran Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-7073, USA
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Kang H, Jo J, Kim HJ, Choi MY, Rhee SW, Koh DS. Glucose metabolism and oscillatory behavior of pancreatic islets. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 72:051905. [PMID: 16383643 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.051905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2004] [Revised: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A variety of oscillations are observed in pancreatic islets. We establish a model incorporating two oscillatory systems of different time scales: One is the well-known bursting model in pancreatic cells and the other is the glucose-insulin feedback model which considers direct and indirect feedback of secreted insulin. These two are coupled to interact with each other in the combined model, and two basic assumptions are made on the basis of biological observations: The conductance gK(ATP) for the ATP-dependent potassium current is a decreasing function of the glucose concentration whereas the insulin secretion rate is given by a function of the intracellular calcium concentration. Obtained via extensive numerical simulations are complex oscillations including clusters of bursts, slow and fast calcium oscillations, and so on. We also consider how the intracellular glucose concentration depends upon the extracellular glucose concentration, and examine the inhibitory effects of insulin.
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- H Kang
- Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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Salehi A, Qader SS, Quader SS, Grapengiesser E, Hellman B. Inhibition of purinoceptors amplifies glucose-stimulated insulin release with removal of its pulsatility. Diabetes 2005; 54:2126-31. [PMID: 15983214 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.7.2126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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External ATP has been proposed to be an autocrine regulator of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and responsible for the synchronization of the Ca2+ rhythmicity in the beta-cells required for a pulsatile release of insulin from the pancreas. The importance of external ATP for glucose-stimulated insulin release was evaluated in rats with the aid of 2-deoxy-N-methyladenosine-3,5-bisphosphate (MRS 2179), an inhibitor of the purinoceptors known to affect the Ca2+ signaling in beta-cells. The concentration of cytoplasmic Ca2+ was measured in single beta-cells and small aggregates with ratiometric fura-2 technique and the release of insulin recorded from isolated islets and the perfused pancreas. Addition of 1 micromol/l ATP induced premature cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) oscillations similar to those found in beta-cells exposed to 20 mmol/l glucose. In most experiments, the presence of 10 micromol/l MRS 2179 did not remove the glucose-induced [Ca2+]i rhythmicity in single beta-cells or the synchronization seen in coupled cells. Nevertheless, the same concentration of MRS 2179 promptly interrupted the pulsatility (frequency 0.22 +/- 0.01/min) of insulin secretion, raising the total amounts released from the pancreas. Prolonged exposure of islets to 1 and 10 micromol/l MRS 2179 enhanced insulin secretion at 20 mmol/l glucose 33% (P < 0.05) and 63% (P < 0.01), respectively, without affecting the release at 3 mmol/l glucose. The results support the idea that neural ATP signals entrain the islets into a common rhythm resulting in pulsatile release of insulin and that glucose stimulation of the secretory activity is counteracted by accumulation of inhibitory ATP around the beta-cells.
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- Albert Salehi
- Institute of Physiological Sciences, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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Ravier MA, Güldenagel M, Charollais A, Gjinovci A, Caille D, Söhl G, Wollheim CB, Willecke K, Henquin JC, Meda P. Loss of connexin36 channels alters beta-cell coupling, islet synchronization of glucose-induced Ca2+ and insulin oscillations, and basal insulin release. Diabetes 2005; 54:1798-807. [PMID: 15919802 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.6.1798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Normal insulin secretion requires the coordinated functioning of beta-cells within pancreatic islets. This coordination depends on a communications network that involves the interaction of beta-cells with extracellular signals and neighboring cells. In particular, adjacent beta-cells are coupled via channels made of connexin36 (Cx36). To assess the function of this protein, we investigated islets of transgenic mice in which the Cx36 gene was disrupted by homologous recombination. We observed that compared with wild-type and heterozygous littermates that expressed Cx36 and behaved as nontransgenic controls, mice homozygous for the Cx36 deletion (Cx36(-/-)) featured beta-cells devoid of gap junctions and failing to exchange microinjected Lucifer yellow. During glucose stimulation, islets of Cx36(-/-) mice did not display the regular oscillations of intracellular calcium concentrations ([Ca(2+)](i)) seen in controls due to the loss of cell-to-cell synchronization of [Ca(2+)](i) changes. The same islets did not release insulin in a pulsatile fashion, even though the overall output of the hormone in response to glucose stimulation was normal. However, under nonstimulatory conditions, islets lacking Cx36 showed increased basal release of insulin. These data show that Cx36-dependent signaling is essential for the proper functioning of beta-cells, particularly for the pulsatility of [Ca(2+)](i) and insulin secretion during glucose stimulation.
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- Magalie A Ravier
- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, C.M.U., 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Grapengiesser E, Dansk H, Hellman B. Pulses of external ATP aid to the synchronization of pancreatic beta-cells by generating premature Ca(2+) oscillations. Biochem Pharmacol 2004; 68:667-74. [PMID: 15276074 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2004.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2004] [Accepted: 04/23/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Pancreatic beta-cells respond to glucose stimulation with increase of the cytoplasmic Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)), manifested as membrane-derived slow oscillations sometimes superimposed with transients of intracellular origin. The effect of external ATP on the oscillatory Ca(2+) signal for pulsatile insulin release was studied by digital imaging of fura-2 loaded beta-cells and small aggregates isolated from islets of ob/ob-mice. Addition of ATP (0.01-100 microM) to media containing 20mM glucose temporarily synchronized the [Ca(2+)](i) rhythmicity in the absence of cell contact by eliciting premature oscillations. External ATP triggered premature [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations also when the sarcoendoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase was inhibited with 50 microM cyclopiazonic acid and phospholipase C inhibited with 10 microM U-73122. The effect of ATP was mimicked by other activators of cytoplasmic phospholipase A(2) (10nM acetylcholine, 0.1-1 micro M of the C-terminal octapeptide of cholecystokinin and 2 microg/ml melittin) and suppressed by an inhibitor of the enzyme (50 microM p-amylcinnamoylanthranilic acid). Premature oscillations generated by pulses of ATP sometimes triggered subsequent oscillations. However, prolonged exposure to high concentrations of the nucleotide (10-100 microM) had a suppressive action on the beta-cell rhythmicity. The early effects of ATP included generation of transients induced by inositol (1,4,5) trisphosphate and superimposed on the premature oscillation or on an ordinary oscillation induced by glucose. The results support the idea that purinergic activation of phospholipase A(2) has a co-ordinating effect on the beta-cell rhythmicity by triggering premature [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations mediated by closure of ATP-sensitive K(+) channels.
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- Eva Grapengiesser
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedicum, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden
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Caumo A, Luzi L. First-phase insulin secretion: does it exist in real life? Considerations on shape and function. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2004; 287:E371-85. [PMID: 15308473 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00139.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To fulfill its preeminent function of regulating glucose metabolism, insulin secretion must not only be quantitatively appropriate but also have qualitative, dynamic properties that optimize insulin action on target tissues. This review focuses on the importance of the first-phase insulin secretion to glucose metabolism and attempts to illustrate the relationships between the first-phase insulin response to an intravenous glucose challenge and the early insulin response following glucose ingestion. A clear-cut first phase occurs only when the beta-cell is exposed to a rapidly changing glucose stimulus, like the one induced by a brisk intravenous glucose administration. In contrast, peripheral insulin concentration following glucose ingestion does not bear any clear sign of biphasic shape. Coupling data from the literature with the results of a beta-cell model simulation, a close relationship between the first-phase insulin response to intravenous glucose and the early insulin response to glucose ingestion emerges. It appears that the same ability of the beta-cell to produce a pronounced first phase in response to an intravenous glucose challenge can generate a rapidly increasing early phase in response to the blood glucose profile following glucose ingestion. This early insulin response to glucose is enhanced by the concomitant action of incretins and neural responses to nutrient ingestion. Thus, under physiological circumstances, the key feature of the early insulin response seems to be the ability to generate a rapidly increasing insulin profile. This notion is corroborated by recent experimental evidence that the early insulin response, when assessed at the portal level with a frequent sampling, displays a pulsatile nature. Thus, even though the classical first phase does not exist under physiological conditions, the oscillatory behavior identified at the portal level does serve the purpose of rapidly exposing the liver to elevated insulin levels that, also in virtue of their up-and-down pattern, are particularly effective in restraining hepatic glucose production.
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- Andrea Caumo
- Unit of Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milano, Italy
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Defects in pancreatic islet beta-cell function play a major role in the development of diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes is caused by a more or less rapid destruction of pancreatic beta cells, and the autoimmune process begins years before the beta-cell destruction becomes complete, thereby providing a window of opportunity for intervention. During the preclinical period and early after diagnosis, much of the insulin deficiency may be the result of functional inhibition of insulin secretion that may be at least partially and transiently reversible. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by a progressive loss of beta-cell function throughout the course of the disease. The pattern of loss is an initial (probably of genetic origin) defect in acute or first-phase insulin secretion, followed by a decreasing maximal capacity of insulin secretion. Last, a defective steady-state and basal insulin secretion develops, leading to almost complete beta-cell failure requiring insulin treatment. Because of the reciprocal relation between insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity, valid representation of beta-cell function requires interpretation of insulin responses in the context of the prevailing degree of insulin sensitivity. This appropriate approach highlights defects in insulin secretion at the various stages of the natural history of type 2 diabetes and already present in individuals at risk to develop the disease. To date none of the available therapies can stop the progressive beta-cell defect and the progression of the metabolic disorder. The better understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease should lead to the development of new strategies to preserve beta-cell function in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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- A J Scheen
- Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Department of Medicine, CHU Sart Tilman (B35), B-4000 Liège 1, Belgium.
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Lundquist I, Alm P, Salehi A, Henningsson R, Grapengiesser E, Hellman B. Carbon monoxide stimulates insulin release and propagates Ca2+ signals between pancreatic beta-cells. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2003; 285:E1055-63. [PMID: 14534076 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00498.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A key question for understanding the mechanisms of pulsatile insulin release is how the underlying beta-cell oscillations of the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) are synchronized within and among the islets in the pancreas. Nitric oxide has been proposed to coordinate the activity of the beta-cells by precipitating transients of [Ca2+]i. Comparing ob/ob mice and lean controls, we have now studied the action of carbon monoxide (CO), another neurotransmitter with stimulatory effects on cGMP production. A strong immunoreactivity for the CO-producing constitutive heme oxygenase (HO-2) was found in ganglionic cells located in the periphery of the islets and in almost all islet endocrine cells. Islets from ob/ob mice had sixfold higher generation of CO (1 nmol.min-1.mg protein-1) than the lean controls. This is 100-fold the rate for their constitutive production of NO. Moreover, islets from ob/ob mice showed a threefold increase in HO-2 expression and expressed inducible HO (HO-1). The presence of an excessive islet production of CO in the ob/ob mouse had its counterpart in a pronounced suppression of the glucose-stimulated insulin release from islets exposed to the HO inhibitor Zn-protoporhyrin (10 microM) and in a 16 times higher frequency of [Ca2+]i transients in their beta-cells. Hemin (0.1 and 1.0 microM), the natural substrate for HO, promoted the appearance of [Ca2+]i transients, and 10 microM of the HO inhibitors Zn-protoporphyrin and Cr-mesoporphyrin had a suppressive action both on the firing of transients and their synchronization. It is concluded that the increased islet production of CO contributes to the hyperinsulinemia in ob/ob mice. In addition to serving as a positive modulator of glucose-stimulated insulin release, CO acts as a messenger propagating Ca2+ signals with coordinating effects on the beta-cell rhythmicity.
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- Ingmar Lundquist
- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Physiological Sciences, University of Lund, BMC F13, S-221 84 Lund, Sweden.
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Henquin JC, Ravier MA, Nenquin M, Jonas JC, Gilon P. Hierarchy of the beta-cell signals controlling insulin secretion. Eur J Clin Invest 2003; 33:742-50. [PMID: 12925032 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2003.01207.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Grapengiesser E, Dansk H, Hellman B. Synchronization of pancreatic beta-cell rhythmicity after glucagon induction of Ca2+ transients. Cell Calcium 2003; 34:49-53. [PMID: 12767892 DOI: 10.1016/s0143-4160(03)00021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Pancreatic beta-cells are biological oscillators requiring a coupling force for the synchronization of the cytoplasmic Ca(2+) oscillations responsible for pulsatile insulin release. Testing the idea that transients, superimposed on the oscillations, are important for this synchronization, the concentration of cytoplasmic Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) was measured with ratiometric fura-2 technique in single beta-cells and small aggregates prepared from islets isolated from ob/ob-mice. Image analyses revealed asynchronous [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations in adjacent beta-cells lacking physical contact. The addition of glucagon stimulated the firing of [Ca(2+)](i) transients, which appeared in synchrony in adjacent beta-cells. Moreover, the presence of glucagon promoted synchronization of the [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations in beta-cells separated by a distance <100 microm but not in those >200 microm apart. The results support the proposal that the repolarizing effect of [Ca(2+)](i) transients provides a coupling force for co-ordinating the pulses of insulin release generated by pancreatic beta-cells.
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- E Grapengiesser
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedicum Box 571, Uppsala SE-751 23, Sweden
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Herchuelz A, Diaz-Horta O, Van Eylen F. Na/Ca exchange in function, growth, and demise of beta-cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002; 976:315-24. [PMID: 12502574 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04754.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recent knowledge concerning the Na/Ca exchanger (NCX) in the pancreatic beta-cell is reviewed. The beta-cell expresses various NCX1 splice variants in a species-specific pattern (NCX1.3 and 1.7 in the rat; NCX1.2, 1.3, and 1.7 in the mouse) and in variable and different proportions. In the rat beta-cell, the exchanger displays a high capacity, accounts for about 70% of Ca(2+) extrusion, and participates in Ca(2+) inflow during membrane depolarization. In the mouse, however, the contribution of the exchanger to Ca(2+) extrusion is more modest, and to Ca(2+) inflow, less evident. The exchanger has a stoichiometry of 3 Na(+) for 1 Ca(2+), is electrogenic, and displays a reversal potential at -20 mV. Although being of low magnitude, the current generated by the exchanger shapes glucose-induced beta-cell electrical activity and intracellular Ca(2+) oscillations. Intracellular Ca(2+) may also trigger apoptosis. For instance, overexpression of the exchanger increases Ca(2+)-dependent and Ca(2+)-independent beta-cell death by apoptosis, a phenomenon resulting from the depletion of ER Ca(2+) stores with subsequent activation of caspase-12. Na/Ca exchange overexpression also reduces beta-cell growth. Hence, the Na/Ca exchanger is a versatile system that appears to play an important role in the function, growth, and demise of the beta-cell.
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- André Herchuelz
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, Brussels University School of Medicine, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium.
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Ravier MA, Henquin JC. Time and amplitude regulation of pulsatile insulin secretion by triggering and amplifying pathways in mouse islets. FEBS Lett 2002; 530:215-9. [PMID: 12387895 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03491-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Glucose-induced insulin secretion is pulsatile. We investigated how the triggering pathway (rise in beta-cell [Ca(2+)](i)) and amplifying pathway (greater Ca(2+) efficacy on exocytosis) influence this pulsatility. Repetitive [Ca(2+)](i) pulses were imposed by high K(+)+ diazoxide in single mouse islets. Insulin secretion (measured simultaneously) tightly followed [Ca(2+)](i) changes. Lengthening [Ca(2+)](i) pulses increased the duration but not the amplitude of insulin pulses. Increasing glucose (5-20 mmol/l) augmented the amplitude of insulin pulses without changing that of [Ca(2+)](i) pulses. Larger [Ca(2+)](i) pulses augmented the amplitude of insulin pulses at high, but not low glucose. In conclusion, the amplification pathway ensures amplitude modulation of insulin pulses whose time modulation is achieved by the triggering pathway.
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- Magalie A Ravier
- Unité d'Endocrinologie et Métabolisme, University of Louvain Faculty of Medicine, UCL 55.30, Avenue Hippocrate 55, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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Kamagate A, Herchuelz A, Van Eylen F. Plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase overexpression reduces Ca(2+) oscillations and increases insulin release induced by glucose in insulin-secreting BRIN-BD11 cells. Diabetes 2002; 51:2773-88. [PMID: 12196471 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.9.2773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In the mouse beta-cell, glucose generates large amplitude oscillations of the cytosolic-free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) that are synchronous to insulin release oscillations. To examine the role played by [ Ca(2+)](i) oscillations in the process of insulin release, we examined the effect of plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase (PMCA) overexpression on glucose-induced Ca(2+) oscillations and insulin release in BRIN-BD11 cells. BRIN-BD11 cells were stably transfected with PMCA2wb. Overexpression could be assessed at the mRNA and protein level, with appropriate targeting to the plasma membrane assessed by immunofluorescence and the increase in PMCA activity. In response to K(+), overexpressing cells showed a markedly reduced rise in [Ca(2+)](i). In response to glucose, control cells showed large amplitude [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations, whereas overexpressing cells showed markedly reduced increases in [Ca(2+)](i) without such large oscillations. Suppression of [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations was accompanied by an increase in glucose metabolism and insulin release that remained oscillatory despite having a lower periodicity. Hence, [Ca(2+)] (i) oscillations appear unnecessary for glucose-induced insulin release and may even be less favorable than a stable increase in [ Ca(2+)](i) for optimal hormone secretion. [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations do not directly drive insulin release oscillations but may nevertheless intervene in the fine regulation of such oscillations.
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- Adama Kamagate
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, Brussels University School of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
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Ultradian rhythmicity appears to be characteristic of several endocrine systems. As described for other hormones, insulin release is a multioscillatory process with rapid pulses of about 10 min and slower ultradian oscillations (50--120 min). The mechanisms underlying the ultradian circhoral oscillations of insulin secretion rate (ISR), which arise in part from a rhythmic amplification of the rapid pulses, are not fully understood. In humans, included in the same period range is the alternation of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep cycles and the associated opposite oscillations in sympathovagal balance. During sleep, the glucose and ISR oscillations were amplified by about 150%, but the REM-NREM sleep cycles did not entrain the glucose and ISR ultradian oscillations. Also, the latter were not related to either the ultradian oscillations in sympathoagal balance, as inferred from spectral analysis of cardiac R-R intervals, or the plasma fluctuations of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone known to potentiate glucose-stimulated insulin. Other rhythmic physiological processes are currently being examined in relation to ultradian insulin release.
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- Chantal Simon
- Laboratoire des Régulations Physiologiques et des Rythmes Biologiques chez l'Homme, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
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Gilon P, Ravier MA, Jonas JC, Henquin JC. Control mechanisms of the oscillations of insulin secretion in vitro and in vivo. Diabetes 2002; 51 Suppl 1:S144-51. [PMID: 11815474 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.2007.s144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The mechanisms driving the pulsatility of insulin secretion in vivo and in vitro are still unclear. Because glucose metabolism and changes in cytosolic free Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](c)) in beta-cells play a key role in the control of insulin secretion, and because oscillations of these two factors have been observed in single isolated islets and beta-cells, pulsatile insulin secretion could theoretically result from [Ca(2+)](c) or metabolism oscillations. We could not detect metabolic oscillations independent from [Ca(2+)](c) changes in beta-cells, and imposed metabolic oscillations were poorly effective in inducing oscillations of secretion when [Ca(2+)](c) was kept stable, which suggests that metabolic oscillations are not the direct regulator of the oscillations of secretion. By contrast, tight temporal and quantitative correlations between the changes in [Ca(2+)](c) and insulin release strongly suggest that [Ca(2+)](c) oscillations are the direct drivers of insulin secretion oscillations. Metabolism may play a dual role, inducing [Ca(2+)](c) oscillations (via changes in ATP-sensitive K(+) channel activity and membrane potential) and amplifying the secretory response by increasing the efficiency of Ca(2+) on exocytosis. The mechanisms underlying the oscillations of insulin secretion by the isolated pancreas and those observed in vivo remain elusive. It is not known how the functioning of distinct islets is synchronized, and the possible role of intrapancreatic ganglia in this synchronization requires confirmation. That pulsatile insulin secretion is beneficial in vivo, by preventing insulin resistance, is suggested by the greater hypoglycemic effect of exogenous insulin when it is infused in a pulsatile rather than continuous manner. The observation that type 2 diabetic patients have impaired pulsatile insulin secretion has prompted the suggestion that such dysregulation contributes to the disease and justifies the efforts toward understanding of the mechanism underlying the pulsatility of insulin secretion both in vitro and in vivo.
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- Patrick Gilon
- Unité d'Endocrinologie et Métabolisme, University of Louvain Faculty of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium.
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Kjems LL, Ravier MA, Jonas JC, Henquin JC. Do oscillations of insulin secretion occur in the absence of cytoplasmic Ca2+ oscillations in beta-cells? Diabetes 2002; 51 Suppl 1:S177-82. [PMID: 11815478 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.2007.s177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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That oscillations of the cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) in beta-cells induce oscillations of insulin secretion is not disputed, but whether metabolism-driven oscillations of secretion can occur in the absence of [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations is still debated. Because this possibility is based partly on the results of experiments using islets from aged, hyperglycemic, hyperinsulinemic ob/ob mice, we compared [Ca(2+)](i) and insulin secretion patterns of single islets from 4- and 10-month-old, normal NMRI mice to those of islets from 7- and 10-month-old ob/ob mice (Swedish colony) and their lean littermates. The responses were subjected to cluster analysis to identify significant peaks. Control experiments without islets and with a constant insulin concentration were run to detect false peaks. Both ob/ob and NMRI islets displayed large synchronous oscillations of [Ca(2+)](i) and insulin secretion in response to repetitive depolarizations with 30 mmol/l K(+) in the presence of 0.1 mmol/l diazoxide and 12 mmol/l glucose. Continuous depolarization with high K(+) steadily elevated [Ca(2+)](i) in all types of islets, with no significant oscillation, and caused a biphasic insulin response. In islets from young (4-month-old) NMRI mice and 7-month-old lean mice, the insulin profile did not show significant peaks when [Ca(2+)](i) was stable. In contrast, two or more peaks were detected over 20 min in the response of most ob/ob islets. Similar insulin peaks appeared in the insulin response of 10-month-old lean and NMRI mice. However, the size of the insulin peaks detected in the presence of stable [Ca(2+)](i) was small, so that no more than 10-13% of total insulin secretion occurred in a pulsatile manner. In conclusion, insulin secretion does not oscillate when [Ca(2+)](i) is stably elevated in beta-cells from young normal mice. Some oscillations are observed in aged mice and are seen more often in ob/ob islets. These fluctuations of the insulin secretion rate at stably elevated [Ca(2+)](i), however, are small compared with the large oscillations induced by [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations in beta-cells.
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- Lise L Kjems
- Unité d'Endocrinologie et Métabolisme, University of Louvain Faculty of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
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Kieffer TJ, Hussain MA, Habener JF. Glucagon and Glucagon‐like Peptide Production and Degradation. Compr Physiol 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp070208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Heinemann L. Chronic intermittent intravenous insulin therapy: really a new therapeutic option? Diabetes Technol Ther 2001; 3:125-7. [PMID: 11469702 DOI: 10.1089/152091501750220082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- L Heinemann
- Profil Institute for Metabolic Research, Neuss, Germany.
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Tolić IM, Mosekilde E, Sturis J. Modeling the insulin-glucose feedback system: the significance of pulsatile insulin secretion. J Theor Biol 2000; 207:361-75. [PMID: 11082306 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A mathematical model of the insulin-glucose feedback regulation in man is used to examine the effects of an oscillatory supply of insulin compared to a constant supply at the same average rate. We show that interactions between the oscillatory insulin supply and the receptor dynamics can be of minute significance only. It is possible, however, to interpret seemingly conflicting results of clinical studies in terms of their different experimental conditions with respect to the hepatic glucose release. If this release is operating near an upper limit, an oscillatory insulin supply will be more efficient in lowering the blood glucose level than a constant supply. If the insulin level is high enough for the hepatic release of glucose to nearly vanish, the opposite effect is observed. For insulin concentrations close to the point of inflection of the insulin-glucose dose-response curve an oscillatory and a constant insulin infusion produce similar effects.
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- I M Tolić
- The Rugjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Getty L, Panteleon AE, Mittelman SD, Dea MK, Bergman RN. Rapid oscillations in omental lipolysis are independent of changing insulin levels in vivo. J Clin Invest 2000; 106:421-30. [PMID: 10930445 PMCID: PMC314322 DOI: 10.1172/jci7815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Abnormal fat metabolism plays an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity-related type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study examined whether free fatty acid levels (FFAs), like insulin levels, oscillate rapidly in plasma. Peripheral and portal blood samples from dogs were assayed for FFA, glycerol, glucose, and insulin. FFA and glycerol showed correlated oscillatory profiles, with about 8 pulses/hour. Omental lipolysis was also pulsatile, with about 10 pulses/hour, and insulin levels oscillated rapidly in plasma with about 7 pulses/hour. We applied an insulin clamp, beta-adrenergic blockade, or both together, to determine the driving force behind the FFA oscillation, and we analyzed our findings by approximate entropy (ApEn) for which lower values suggest regular pulses and higher values suggest disorder. Under basal conditions, ApEn was 0.3 +/- 0.2. With insulin not oscillating, FFA still cycled at about 9 pulses/hour and the ApEn was 0.2 +/- 0.1. In contrast, beta-blockade, either in the presence or absence of an insulin clamp, removed the FFA oscillation in three of nine dogs. In the other six dogs, the oscillatory profile was unchanged, but ApEn was significantly higher than basal values, suggesting that the regularity of the profile was disrupted. These results suggest that the FFA oscillation is driven by the central nervous system, not by insulin.
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- L Getty
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Nadal A, Quesada I, Soria B. Homologous and heterologous asynchronicity between identified alpha-, beta- and delta-cells within intact islets of Langerhans in the mouse. J Physiol 1999; 517 ( Pt 1):85-93. [PMID: 10226151 PMCID: PMC2269319 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0085z.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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1. Using laser scanning confocal microscopy to image [Ca2+]i within intact murine islets of Langerhans, we analysed the [Ca2+]i signals generated by glucose in immunocytochemically identified alpha-, beta- and delta-cells. 2. Glucagon-containing alpha-cells exhibited [Ca2+]i oscillations in the absence of glucose, which petered out when islets were exposed to high glucose concentrations. 3. Somatostatin-containing delta-cells were silent in the absence of glucose but concentrations of glucose as low as 3 mM elicited oscillations. 4. In pancreatic beta-cells, a characteristic oscillatory calcium pattern was evoked when glucose levels were raised from 3 to 11 mM and this was synchronized throughout the beta-cell population. Remarkably, [Ca2+]i oscillations in non-beta-cells were completely asynchronous, both with respect to each other and to beta-cells. 5. These results demonstrate that the islet of Langerhans behaves as a functional syncytium only in terms of beta-cells, implying a pulsatile secretion of insulin. However, the lack of a co-ordinated calcium signal in alpha- and delta-cells implies that each cell acts as an independent functional unit and the concerted activity of these units results in a smoothly graded secretion of glucagon and somatostatin. Understanding the calcium signals underlying glucagon and somatostatin secretion may be of importance in the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus since both glucagon and somatostatin appear to regulate insulin release in a paracrine fashion.
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- A Nadal
- Institute of Bioengineering and Department of Physiology, Miguel Hernández University, Campus of San Juan, Alicante 03550, Spain.
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Fliser D, Veldhuis JD, Dikow R, Schmidt-Gayk H, Ritz E. Effects of acute ACE inhibition on pulsatile renin and aldosterone secretion and their synchrony. Hypertension 1998; 32:929-34. [PMID: 9822455 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.32.5.929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pulsatile (burstlike) secretion of renin and aldosterone is positively coupled with a short time lag of about 10 to 20 minutes. We investigated how acute interruption of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis, ie, acute angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition, alters the pattern of renin and aldosterone secretion. Eight healthy men (mean age, 22+/-1 years) were studied while on standardized salt intake. They were allocated on 2 occasions in random order to injection of placebo or 1.25 mg of the ACE inhibitor enalaprilat. Blood samples were obtained every 10 minutes for 24 hours for measurement of plasma renin and aldosterone concentrations. The hormone concentration profiles were analyzed using a multiparameter deconvolution technique; basal (tonic) and pulsatile hormone secretion was assessed. The regularity of pulsatile hormone secretion was analyzed using approximate entropy (ApEn). Cross-correlation and cross-ApEn analysis of renin and aldosterone secretion were performed to assess synchrony. Acute ACE inhibition caused an immediate burst of renin release and, in addition, significantly (P<0.01) increased 24-hour pulsatile and total renin secretion. It did not affect basal (nonpulsatile) renin secretion. The amplitude of renin bursts and the mass of hormone secreted per burst were significantly (P<0.01) increased, whereas the burst frequency (ie, number of secretory events) was unchanged. ApEn analysis revealed significantly (P<0.05) more regular renin secretion after ACE inhibition. In contrast, neither basal nor pulsatile aldosterone secretion was affected by administration of enalaprilat. Cross-ApEn analysis documented not only a maintained pattern of reproducibility (ie, synchrony) but also greater conditional regularity between pulsatile renin and aldosterone secretions with acute ACE inhibition. However, the quantitative strength of hormone coupling (assessed by cross-correlation analysis) was markedly diminished by enalaprilat treatment. The present findings suggest that the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis may not be completely uncoupled by acute ACE inhibition or that pulsatile renin and aldosterone secretion is driven by a common signal generator that is unaffected by ACE inhibition. In addition, a background basal and pulsatile aldosterone secretion not regulated by the renin-angiotensin axis may exist.
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- D Fliser
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ruperto-Carola University, Heidelberg, Germany
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Liu YJ, Tengholm A, Grapengiesser E, Hellman B, Gylfe E. Origin of slow and fast oscillations of Ca2+ in mouse pancreatic islets. J Physiol 1998; 508 ( Pt 2):471-81. [PMID: 9508810 PMCID: PMC2230881 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.471bq.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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1. Pancreatic islets exposed to 11 mM glucose exhibited complex variations of cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) with slow (0.3-0.9 min-1) or fast (2-7 min-1) oscillations or with a mixed pattern. 2. Using digital imaging and confocal microscopy we demonstrated that the mixed pattern with slow and superimposed fast oscillations was due to separate cell populations with the respective responses. 3. In islets with mixed [Ca2+]i oscillations, exposure to the sarcoplasmic-endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitors thapsigargin or 2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone (DTBHQ) resulted in a selective disappearance of the fast pattern and amplification of the slow pattern. 4. In addition, the protein kinase A inhibitor RP-cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphorothioate sodium salt transformed the mixed [Ca2+]i oscillations into slow oscillations with larger amplitude. 5. Islets exhibiting only slow oscillations reacted to low concentrations of glucagon with induction of the fast or the mixed pattern. In this case the fast oscillations were also counteracted by DTBHQ. 6. The spontaneously occurring fast oscillations seemed to require the presence of cAMP-elevating glucagon, since they were more common in large islets and suppressed during culture. 7. Image analysis revealed [Ca2+]i spikes occurring irregularly in time and space within an islet. These spikes were preferentially observed together with fast [Ca2+]i oscillations, and they became more common after exposure to glucagon. 8. Both the slow and fast oscillations of [Ca2+]i in pancreatic islets rely on periodic entry of Ca2+. However, the fast oscillations also depend in some way on paracrine factors promoting mobilization of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. It is proposed that such a mobilization in different cells within a tightly coupled islet syncytium generates spikes which co-ordinate the regular bursts of action potentials underlying the fast oscillations.
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- Y J Liu
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Centre, Box 571, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Westerlund J, Gylfe E, Bergsten P. Pulsatile insulin release from pancreatic islets with nonoscillatory elevation of cytoplasmic Ca2+. J Clin Invest 1997; 100:2547-51. [PMID: 9366569 PMCID: PMC508455 DOI: 10.1172/jci119797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The relationship between insulin release and cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) was studied in isolated pancreatic islets from ob/ob mice. Although [Ca2+]i was low and stable in the presence of 3 mM glucose, basal insulin release exhibited low amplitude pulsatility, with a frequency of 0.32 +/- 0.04 min-1. Depolarization by raising K+ from 5.9 to 30.9 mM or by the addition of 1 mM tolbutamide caused a pronounced initial insulin pulse followed by declining pulses, but there was no change in frequency. This decline in amplitude of the insulin pulses was prevented in similar experiments performed in the presence of 11 mM glucose. Corresponding measurements of [Ca2+]i in islets exposed to tolbutamide or the high K+ concentration revealed stable elevations without oscillations. Although the [Ca2+]i level is an important determinant for the rate of secretion, the results indicate that pulsatile insulin release does not always depend on [Ca2+]i oscillations. It is suggested that cyclic generation of ATP may fuel pulsatile release under conditions when [Ca2+]i remains stable.
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- J Westerlund
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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