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  • 1
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    Journal of molecular medicine 66 (1988), S. 216-222 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Fat distribution ; Hyperinsulinemia ; Obesity ; Glucose tolerance ; Non-insulin dependent diabetes
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Relationship between body fat distribution, serum insulin, and glucose tolerance in obese, non-diabetic women. Recent studies suggest that hyperinsulinemia and upper body obesity are predictive factors for the development of non-insulindependent diabetes mellitus. To further characterize the relationship between body fat distribution, serum insulin, and glucose tolerance an oral glucose tolerance test was performed in 48 obese, nondiabetic women. Fasting insulin levels were correlated to both total body fat calculated as body mass index (r=0.58,p〈0.001) and upper body fat distribution expressed as waist-to-hip ratio (WHR,r=0.47,p〈0.01). In the women with upper body fat localization (WHR〉0.90) significantly higher basal and glucose-stimulated insulin concentrations were established than in the women with a lower body type of obesity (WHR〈0.78) (basal insulin 27.4±11.5 vs. 15.4±8.8 mU/l,p〈0.05, insulin area 779±320 vs. 468±237 U,p〈0.05). They also had impaired glucose tolerance (glucose area 925±139 vs. 633±147 U,p〈0.01). Fasting triglyceride concentrations were correlated both with WHR (r=0.63,p〈0.001) and fasting insulin (r=0.33,p〈0.05) but not with BMI (r=−0.02, n.s.). A positive association was found between systolic and diastolic blood pressure and both WHR (r=0.43 andr=0.44 resp.,p〈0.01) and BMI (eachr=0.35,p〈0.05). Interestingly, basal insulin was also associated with blood pressure (r=0.30,p〈0.1, andr=0.40,p〈0.01 resp.). These results suggest a close relationship between upper body obesity, hyperinsulinemia, and impaired glucose tolerance. Women with an upper body tpye of obesity also show tendencies to hypertriglyceridemia and hypertension. Obese women with upper body obesity represent a subgroup of the obesity population with an increased risk to develop type-II diabetes.
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  • 2
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    Journal of molecular medicine 67 (1989), S. 530-534 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Hypothyroidism ; Pulmonary circulation ; Pulmonary vascular resistance ; Hemodynamic evaluation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The effect of acute hypothyroidism on the pulmonary circulation was studied in 9 nonobese athyreotic patients by right heart catheterization at rest and during exercise. The patients were studied while they were hypothyroid 2 weeks after ceasing triiodothyronine treatment and while they were euthyroid on replacement therapy. At rest, pulmonary blood flow [4.0±0.6 l/min vs 5.8±1.0 l/min,p〈0.01] and systolic pulmonary artery pressure [18±3 mmHg vs 23±2 mmHg,p〈0.01] were lower when the patients were hypothyroid than when they were euthyroid. The mean and diastolic pressures in the pulmonary artery and the pulmonary capillary pressures were not different among the groups. Likewise, thyroid hormone levels had no significant effect on pulmonary vascular resistance [100±25 dyn-s-cm−5 vs 90±23 dyn-s-cm−5]. With supine exercise, pulmonary blood flow [10.1±1.6 l/min vs. 13.2±2.0 l/min,p〈0.01], mean pulmonary artery pressure [25±6 mmHg vs 30±6 mmHg,p〈0.02], and systolic pulmonary artery pressure [36±6 mmHg vs 44±8 mmHg,p〈0.01] were lower when the patients were hypothyroid. The diastolic pulmonary artery pressure and the pulmonary capillary pressure were similar in both thyroid states. Again, thyroid deficiency had no effect on pulmonary vascular resistance [81±23 dyn-s-cm−5 vs 76±24 dyn-s-cm−5]. The lower systolic pressures in the pulmonary artery seen in hypothyroidism are probably due to the decreased systolic volume load of the pulmonary circulation. The data do not suggest that thyroid hormones play a role in the regulation of pulmonary vascular resistance.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Thyrotropin-releasing hormone ; RIA-TRH ; Pharmacokinetics ; Hypothyroidism ; Hyperthyroidism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The pharmacokinetics of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) were assessed following an i.v. injection in blood of ten hyperthyroid, ten hypothyroid, and six normal subjects. A single-compartment model was employed. After methanol extraction, TRH concentrations were analyzed using a specific radioimmunoassay technique combined with fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC). As for the basal levels of TRH, no differences were observed in either study group. Peak concentrations were always present two min after the injection of TRH. In the euthyroid subjects, TRH blood levels had a half-life (t 1/2) of 6.5±0.41 min, mean±SD, whilet 1/2 was 7.2±0.62 min in the hyperthyroid andt 1/2 was 12±1.67 min (p〈0.001) in the hypothyroid patients. The metabolic clearance rate (MCR) (82.2±15.3 liters/m2/day vs. 89.8±17.2) and the volume of distribution (Vd) (7.1±4.2 liters vs. 7.3±3.4) were approximately the same in the normal subjects and in the hyperthyroid group. MCR (66.2±15.3 Iiters/m2/day) and Vd (6.2±3.3 liters) were found to be lower in the hypothyroid patients. In FPLC, when TRH was added to plasma, it eluted in one peak. Blood samples taken 5 min after TRH i.v. injection had an elution profile of 9.94 ml. These data indicate that 1) TRH has a very short half-life, 2) hypothyroidism can prolong thet 1/2 of exogenous TRH, and 3) when TRH should be used in clinical studies, the function of the thyroid gland has to be taken into consideration.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Coronary artery disease ; Sex hormones ; Obesity ; Body fat distribution ; Angiography
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The relationship between circulating sex hormone levels and the occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD) was studied in a group of 274 men undergoing coronary angiography. Hormone levels in men with CAD (n=200) were compared to those in men found to be free of coronary lesions (n=74). No significant differences were found for serum concentrations of estradiol, total testosterone, sex-hormone-binding globulin, free androgen index, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, or cortisol between the two groups. Serum androgens were negatively correlated to age in both groups, whereas estradiol was weakly associated with total cholesterol in the group of men without CAD. No consistent associations were detected between sex hormone levels and the degree of obesity or the distribution of body fat, the latter being assessed by the ratio of waist-to-hip circumferences. The results of this study do not support a significant role of sex steroid hormones in coronary artery disease in men.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1433-8580
    Keywords: Secretin ; Cholecystokinin-Pancreozymin ; Intestinal hormones ; Intestinal absorption
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The effects of natural secretin (90%) and synthetic secretin as well as impure (10%) and pure (99%) cholecystokinin-pancreozymin (CCK) on net absorption of water, electrolytes, and glucose in human jejunum were studied in 31 normal subjects. An intestinal perfusion technique with a triple-lumen tube was used. Net absorption of water and solute was significantly inhibited by both hormones only with larger doses, pure CCK being less active than impure CCK. A dose-dependent response of water and electrolyte absorption to graded doses of pure CCK was observed, without concomitant inhibition of glucose absorption with lower doses. The findings suggest that secretin and CCK may not be of physiologic importance regarding intestinal absorption in man. The definite changes in intestinal motility and transit rate caused by these hormones seem more likely to result in a reduction of intestinal absorption and an increase in the secretion of water and electrolytes along the proximal small bowel.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Secretin ; pancreozymin ; exocrine pancreatic insufficiency ; insulin ; free fatty acids ; glucose
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'effet des hormones intestinales sécrétine et pancréozymine sur la sécrétion d'insuline, sur la glycémie, les acides gras et le glycérol a été étudié chez onze malades sans diabète mais ayant une insuffisance pancréatique exocrine d'après des résultats cliniques et chimiques. Un groupe de 30 sujets normaux a été utilisé comme témoins. Les hormones intestinales n'ont causé aucune augmentation d'insuline dans le sérum des malades ayant une insuffisance pancréatique exocrine. La sécrétion d'insuline après l'injection intraveineuse de glucose était normale. Il semble que la présence du tissu exocrine du pancréas soit nécessaire pour obtenir une stimulation de la sécrétion d'insuline par la sécrétine et la pancréozymine. Comme il était prévu, il n'y a pas eu chez ces malades — contrairement à ce qui se passe chez les personnes normales — de sécrétion d'insuline différente après l'application de glucose oral et intraveineux. Ces résultats montrent que la similitude des modifications de l'insuline plasmatique après administration de glucose par voie orale et parentérale peut signifier un mauvais fonctionnement du pancréas exocrine. On peut en déduire qu'un récepteur du glucose de la cellule bêta ou de la membrane superficielle peut opérer indépendamment du tissu pancréatique exocrine et des hormones intestinales. D'autre part, il est proposé comme conclusion qu'un «entérorécepteur» de la cellule bêta est sensible à l'action des hormones intestinales et qu'il est dépendant, plus ou moins, d'un tissu pancréatique exocrine.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Bei 11 nicht-diabetischen Patienten mit klinisch und laborchemisch nachgewiesener chronischer exkretorischen Pankreasinsuffizienz wurde die Wirkung der intestinalen Hormone Sekretin und Pankreozymin auf die Insulinsekretion, den Blutzucker, die freien Fettsäuren und das Glycerin untersucht und verglichen mit den an 30 normalen Versuchspersonen gewonnenen Befunden. — Bei den Patienten mit exkretorischer Pankreasinsuffizienz bewirkten die oben genannten intestinalen Hormone keine Erhöhung des Seruminsulins, obwohl die Insulinsekretion nach der i.v. Verabreichung von Glucose nicht beeinträchtigt war. Offensichtlich ist für eine Insulinausschüttung nach Sekretin und Pankreozymin beim Menschen ein intaktes exkretorisches Pankreas erforderlich. Erwartungsgemäß konnte bei diesen Patienten, im Gegensatz zu Normalpersonen, kein Unterschied in der Insulinausschüttung nach oraler und intravenöser Verabreichung von Glucose festgestellt werden. Aus diesen Ergebnissen ist zu schließen, daß die Ähnlichkeit der Plasmainsulin-Veränderungen nach oraler und parenteraler Gabe von Glucose bereits auf einen frühen Schaden der exokrinen Pankreasfunktion hinweisen könnte. Man kann daraus die Folgerung ziehen, daß ein (hypothetischer) „Glucose receptor“ derβ-Zelle oder ihrer Oberflächenmembran mehr oder weniger unabhängig von exokrinem Pankreasgewebe und intestinalen Hormonen funktioniert. Andererseits scheint der „Entero-Rezeptor“ derβ-Zelle, der auf die insulinstimulierende Wirkung der intestinalen Hormone reagiert, mehr oder weniger abhängig zu sein von ausreichendem Vorhandensein intakten exokrinen Pankreasgewebes.
    Notes: Summary In 11 non-diabetic patients with clinical and laboratory evidence of chronic exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, the effect of intestinal hormones secretin and pancreozymin upon insulin secretion, blood sugar, free fatty acids and glycerol was studied and compared with the findings obtained in 30 normal volunteers. — In the patients suffering from exocrine pancreatic insufficiency the above mentioned enterohormones did not elicit any increase in serum insulin although insulin secretion after i.v. glucose loads was perfectly undisturbed. Obviously, the mediator inducing insulin release following secretin and pancreozymin in man depends on intact exocrine pancreatic tissue. As had been expected, no differences in the serum-insulin responses to oral and intravenous glucose, as found in normals, were established in these patients. From theses results it is inferred that similarity of plasma insulin changes after oral and parenteral glucose loads might hint at an early impairment of exocrine pancreatic tissue function. That implies, that a (hypothetical) “Glucose receptor” of theβ-cell or its surface works more or less independently of both the exocrine pancreatic tissue and the intestinal hormones. On the other hand, the “Entero-receptor” of theβ-cell responding to the insulin-stimulating action of intestinal hormones, such as secretin and pancreozymin, is likely to be more or less dependent upon sufficient amounts of intact exocrine pancreatic tissue.
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  • 7
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    Diabetologia 9 (1973), S. 135-139 
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Insulin secretion ; biosynthesis of proinsulin and insulin ; isolated pancreatic islets ; insulin content ; hypophysectomy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Insulin secretion and biosynthesis of proinsulin and insulin were determined in isolated pancreatic islets of hypophysectomized rats. Control rats were of both same age and weight. Hypophysectomy was performed either 13 or 5 weeks prior to the investigation, the weight of the animals being either 80 or 170 g. Biosynthesis of insulin was estimated from the amounts of radioactivity incorporated into proinsulin and insulin after incubation of isolated islets at 50 or 300 mg% glucose in the presence of3H-leucine for 3 h. Islet proteins were separated on Sephadex G 50 fine. — Hypophysectomy resulted in a significant decrease of both glucose stimulated secretion and biosynthesis of insulin. It was found that this reduction was 1) more significant when compared with controls of same age 2) more marked in rats which had been hypophysectomized 13 weeks before than in rats after an interval of 5 weeks and 3) less in rats which had been hypophysectomized at a weight of 170 g than in rats in whom pituitary ablation was performed at a weight of 80 g. At basal glucose concentrations, no significant changes of both secretion and biosynthesis of insulin were apparent. The relation of radioactivity incorporated into proinsulin and insulin was unchanged under all conditions. Insulin content of the isolated islets used was found within about the same range in all rats, apart from the animals which had been hypophysectomized 13 weeks before. In islets of these rats, a reduction to 84% was observed. — Our findings may be explained by reduced sensitivity of the pancreatic B-cell to glucose and a slower rate of insulin biosynthesis after hypophysectomy.
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  • 8
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    Diabetologia 9 (1973), S. 140-144 
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Hypophysectomy ; growth hormone ; corticotrophin ; insulin secretion ; biosynthesis of proinsulin and insulin ; protein synthesis ; isolated pancreatic islets ; epiphyseal cartilage of the tibia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Hypophysectomized rats were substituted with varying doses of human or porcine growth hormone (GH) as well as with ACTH for 6 or 12 days. Hypophysectomy was performed in animals of 80 or 170 g body weight either 12 or 4 weeks prior to the onset of the therapy. Increase in weight and the width of the epiphyseal cartilage were determined, insulin secretion and biosynthesis of proinsulin and insulin, were investigated in isolated pancreatic islets of the animals. — No differences were found between the effects of human and poreine GH preparations. Weight gain was similar in rats which had been hypophysectomized at a weight of 80 g either 12 or 4 weeks prior to the substitution. Secretion and biosynthesis of insulin which were both found to be reduced in isolated islets of untreated, hypophysectomized rats, were improved or normalized after substitution with GH (1 mg/kg/day) for 12 days. On the other hand, a therapy with GH for 6 days, even in tenfold daily dose (10 mg/kg), was ineffective in all rats which had been hypophysectomized at a weight of 80 g. Normalisation of lowered levels of blood sugar was the only positive effect observed after an administration of ACTH for 6 or 12 days. — It appears from our findings that, in contrast to the administration of ACTH, GH given to hypophysectomized rats for a longer period in relatively low doses may normalize both reduced secretion and biosynthesis of insulin.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Intestinal hormones ; isolated pancreatic islets ; insulin release
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'effet des hormones intestinales sécrétine, pancréozymine, gastrine-pentapeptide et glucagon sur la sécrétion d'insuline des ilôts pancréatiques isolés du rat a été étudié. Seule la pancréozymine et le glucagon se sont avérés stimuler la sécrétion d'insuline des ilôts isolés. La pancréozymine a produit cet effet sans glucose et le glucagon ne l'a produit qu'en présence de glucose dans le milieu. L'effet de la pancréozymine a été montré à plusieurs reprises en utilisant les même ilôts dans un système de perifusion dynamique. Ces études impliquent une classification des hormones intestinales, qui stimulent la sécrétion d'insuline selon que le tissu pancréatique exocrine intact est présent ou non.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Der Effekt der intestinalen Hormone Secretin, Pankreozymin, Gastrin-Pentapeptid und Glucagon auf die Insulinsekretion isolierter Langerhans'scher Inseln der Ratte wurde untersucht. Nur Pankreozymin und Glucagon stimulierten die Insulinsekretion der isolierten Inseln, Pankreocymin ohne, Glucagon nur bei Zusatz von Glucose zum Medium. Dieser Effekt von Pankreozymin war wiederholt an denselben Inseln in einem dynamischen Perifusionssystem nachzuweisen. Die Untersuchungen zeigen, daß die insulinstimulierende Wirkung der intestinalen Hormone zum Teil an ein funktionsfähiges exocrines Pankreasgewebe gebunden ist, zum Teil davon unabhängig zustande kommt.
    Notes: Summary The effect of the intestinal hormones secretin, pancreozymin, gastrin-pentapeptide and of glucagon upon insulin secretion of rat isolated pancreatic islets were studied. Only pancreozymin and glucagon were found to stimulate insulin release from the isolated islets, pancreozymin without and glucagon only in presence of glucose in the medium. The effect of pancreozymin was repeatedly shown by using the same islets in a dynamic perifusion system. The studies imply classification of the insulin stimulating actions of the intestinal hormones according to dependence upon and independence of the presence of intact exocrine pancreatic tissue.
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