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  • fluid secretion  (8)
  • ion transport  (5)
  • insulin  (4)
  • linkage analysis  (4)
  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    The journal of membrane biology 94 (1986), S. 143-152 
    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Keywords: fluid secretion ; exocrine gland ; chloride transport
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Sodium (22Na) transport was studied in a basolateral membrane vesicle preparation from rabbit parotid. Sodium uptake was markedly dependent on the presence of both K+ and Cl− in the extravesicular medium, being reduced 5 times when K+ was replaced by a nonphysiologic cation and 10 times when Cl− was replaced by a nonphysiologic anion. Sodium uptake was stimulated by gradients of either K+ or Cl− (relative to nongradient conditions) and could be driven against a sodium concentration gradient by a KCl gradient. No effect of membrane potentials on KCl-dependent sodium flux could be detected, indicating that this is an electroneutral process. A KCl-dependent component of sodium flux could also be demonstrated under equuilibrium exchange conditions, indicating a direct effect of K+ and Cl− on the sodium transport pathway. KCl-dependent sodium uptake exhibited a hyperbolic dependence on sodium concentration consistent with the existence of a single-transport system withK m =3.2mm at 80mm KCl and 23°C. Furosemide inhibited this transporter withK 0.5=2×10−4 m (23°C). When sodium uptake was measured as a function of potassium and chloride concentrations a hyperbolic dependence on [K] (Hill coefficient =1.31±0.07) were observed, consistent with a Na/K/Cl stoichiometry of 1∶1∶2. Taken together these data provide strong evidence for the electroneutral coupling of sodium and KCl movements in this preparation and strongly support the hypothesis that a Na+/K+/Cl− cotransport system thought to be associated with transepithelial chloride and water movements in many exocrine glands is present in the parotid acinar basolateral membrane.
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  • 2
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Diabetologia 13 (1977), S. 571-577 
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Insulinoma ; malignant insulinoma ; proinsulin ; C-peptide ; insulin
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The value of plasma insulin, human C-peptide and proinsulin estimation in the diagnosis of 15 insulinomas has been investigated. Measurement of plasma proinsulin in an overnight fasting sample diagnosed all the insulinomas studied, irrespective of the plasma glucose. Patients with insulinomas had plasma proinsulin in the range 0.04–4.2 pmol/l and normal values were less than 0.01 pmol/ml. If hypoglycaemia was present, an inappropriately raised plasma immunoreactive insulin (including proinsulin) was diagnostic, but this assay was of little assistance if the plasma glucose was normal. Hypoglycaemia was induced with fish insulin in twelve patients with insulinomas and eight normal subjects. Using an antiserum which did not detect fish insulin, but cross-reacted with human proinsulin, the endogenous immunoreactive insulin was suppressed in the normal subjects, but all insulinoma patients had impaired suppression. Assay of plasma human C-peptide, or of the combined immunoreactive C-peptide and proinsulin, discriminated less well and did not clearly diagnose three insulinomas which secreted proinsulin rather than insulin and C-peptide. Plasma human proinsulin values during induced hypoglycaemia gave excellent discrimination and should detect insulinomas irrespective of their degree of histological differentiation. The assay of plasma human proinsulin allows a suppression test to be performed with hypoglycaemia induced by any type of insulin. A raised plasma proinsulin in proportion to C-peptide suggests an undifferentiated insulinoma, which may be more likely to be malignant.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor ; non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ; maturity onset diabetes of the young ; polymerase chain reaction ; linkage analysis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone derived from the preproglucagon molecule that is secreted by intestinal L cells and stimulates insulin secretion from betacells. The GLP-1 receptor is a candidate gene for diabetes mellitus, as mutations may induce the impaired insulin response that is a characteristic feature of NIDDM. To study the relationship between the GLP-1 receptor gene and NIDDM, linkage of a microsatellite polymorphism flanking the GLP-1 receptor gene with diabetes was investigated in three Caucasian families with MODY and in the nuclear families of 12 NIDDM probands. A cumulative LOD score −8.50 excludes linkage in these MODY pedigrees. A LOD score of −1.24 in the NIDDM nuclear pedigrees makes linkage improbable. Mutations in or near the GLP-1 receptor gene are unlikely to be the major cause of the inherited predisposition to NIDDM in Caucasian pedigrees, but we cannot exclude a role for this locus in a polygenic model or a major role in some pedigrees.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 1 diabetes ; diabetic children ; blood glucose profiles ; insulin ; C-peptide ; B cell
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Twenty-four hour profiles of plasma C-peptide an index of endogenous insulin secretion, were performed in 15 Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic children. Plasma C-peptide was detectable in six children, of whom four (‘C-peptide producers’) had peak values above normal fasting levels. In each of the six children with residual B cell function, there was a close correlation between plasma C-peptide and simultaneous blood glucose (r〉 0.50, p〈 0.05). Post-breakfast peak blood glucose was 10.2 ± 1.7 mmol/l (mean ±SEM) in the ‘C-peptide producers’ and 18.7 ± 1.7 mmol/l in the 11 children with low or no detectable C-peptide. Mean M-value, an index of deviation from an ideal blood glucose, was lower in the ‘C-peptide producers’ (p〈0.05). It is concluded that residual functioning B cells in diabetic children behave physiologically in that insulin secretion fluctuates in accordance with the prevailing blood glucose; and that the pattern of action of injected insulin is more critical in non-C-peptide producers who lack the post-prandial dampening effect provided by residual endogenous insulin secretion.
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  • 5
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    Diabetologia 31 (1988), S. 407-414 
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Genetics ; Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes ; linkage analysis ; restriction fragment length polymorphism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary In the last five years, genetic markers for a large number of diseases have been localised using linkage analysis of DNA polymorphisms in affected families. The site of the genetic defect or defects leading to Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, a common illness with a major genetic component, remains unknown. This is due, at least in part, to the lack of large well-defined Type 2 diabetic pedigrees suitable for linkage analysis. There are several features of the disease which make large pedigrees difficult to find. The late age of onset of most probands means that informative older generations are often dead, while there is difficulty in detecting disease in younger generations. The diagnostic criteria for diabetes are, as yet, dependent on an arbitrary cut-off along a continuum of plasma glucose. The high prevalence of the disease may also produce problems as, in any given family, diabetogenic genes may be contributed by more than one parent. Varieties of the disease with a well-defined inheritance, such as maturity onset diabetes of youth, are more suitable for linkage analysis but might be due to defects at a different gene locus. Despite these difficulties, once large well-defined pedigrees have been found, linkage analysis using both candidate genes and random highly polymorphic markers is the strategy most likely to find genetic markers for the disease.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Genetics ; Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes ; insulin receptor ; linkage analysis ; maturity onset diabetes of the young
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The possibility of linkage between the human insulin receptor gene locus and diabetes was examined in three Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic families and one family with maturity onset diabetes of the young. Insulin receptor gene haplotypes were established using BglII, Rsal and Sstl restriction enzyme digests of genomic DNA from all available family members. The digested DNA was subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, Southern blotted, and hybridised to 32P-labelled human insulin receptor gene cDNA. In the pedigree with maturity onset diabetes of the young, formal linkage analysis allowed exclusion of close linkage between the insulin receptor locus and diabetes (logarithm of the odds for linkage versus non-linkage was −5.35 at recombination fraction of 0.01). This confirms the absence of linkage between insulin receptor and diabetes which has been reported in two similar pedigrees. In the three Type 2 diabetic families there were a minimum of 4 recombinants between the insulin receptor locus and diabetes, which makes a direct role for insulin receptor defects unlikely. The importance of using realistic estimates of penetrance when performing linkage analysis in a disease with a late age of onset is emphasised. In contrast to the one previous linkage analysis study of the insulin receptor gene, no specific association of diabetes with the rare Sstl Sl(-) allele was observed in either the maturity onset diabetes of the young or the Type 2 diabetic families.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Maturity-onset diabetes of the young ; glucokinase ; adenosine deaminase ; pituitary adenylate cyclase-activation polypeptide receptor ; hexokinase II ; glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor ; polymerase chain reaction ; linkage analysis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a form of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus characterised by an early age of onset and an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Only a proportion of cases are due to mutations in the glucokinase gene. We have studied five Caucasian MODY families, including the first MODY family to be described, with five candidate genes implicated in regulation of insulin secretion. The affected subjects showed more marked hyperglycaemia than that found in subjects with glucokinase mutations. We assessed polymorphic markers close to the genes for glucokinase, hexokinase II, adenosine deaminase, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptor, and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor. Linkage analysis with diabetes gave cumulative log of the odds (LOD) scores of less than -3, implying that mutations in these genes are unlikely to provide a major genetic contribution to this form of MODY.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Sulphonylureas ; insulin ; C-peptide ; insulin resistance ; hyperglycaemic clamp
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The effect of sulphonylurea therapy for 3 weeks on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and insulin resistance was studied in Type 2 diabetic patients. The fasting plasma insulin and C-peptide concentrations on diet alone were compared with each subject's fasting concentrations on sulphonylurea treatment at a lower fasting plasma glucose and at the original diet-alone glycaemic level obtained by the hyperglycaemic clamp technique. At this isoglycaemic level (mean 11 mmol/l), plasma insulin levels increased from 6.9 mU/l on diet alone to 12.1 mU/l on sulphonylurea treatment (p〈0.01). The subjects were also studied by the hyperglycaemic clamp technique at mean glycaemic levels of 13 mmol/l before and after sulphonylurea treatment; the incremental insulin response was similarly enhanced from 7.6±3.5 to 13.7±6.9 mU/l (p〈0.02) respectively. Sulphonylureas appear to reduce glycaemia by enhancing B-cell function two-fold. In the patients studied this was from approximately 21% to 37% of a normal response. Insulin resistance assessed by the same hyperglycaemic clamps as endogenous plasma insulin concentrations divided by glucose infusion rates was unchanged by sulphonylurea therapy (mean 4.37 compared to 4.40 mU. 1−1·mg−1·kg·min on diet alone).
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: β-cell function ; insulin resistance ; mathematical model ; intravenous glucose tolerance test ; glucose clamp ; insulin receptors ; Type 2 diabetes ; insulin ; glucose
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The steady-state basal plasma glucose and insulin concentrations are determined by their interaction in a feedback loop. A computer-solved model has been used to predict the homeostatic concentrations which arise from varying degrees of β-cell deficiency and insulin resistance. Comparison of a patient's fasting values with the model's predictions allows a quantitative assessment of the contributions of insulin resistance and deficient β-cell function to the fasting hyperglycaemia (homeostasis model assessment, HOMA). The accuracy and precision of the estimate have been determined by comparison with independent measures of insulin resistance and β-cell function using hyperglycaemic and euglycaemic clamps and an intravenous glucose tolerance test. The estimate of insulin resistance obtained by homeostasis model assessment correlated with estimates obtained by use of the euglycaemic clamp (Rs = 0.88, p 〈 0.0001), the fasting insulin concentration (Rs = 0.81, p 〈 0.0001), and the hyperglycaemic clamp, (Rs = 0.69, p 〈 0.01). There was no correlation with any aspect of insulin-receptor binding. The estimate of deficient β-cell function obtained by homeostasis model assessment correlated with that derived using the hyperglycaemic clamp (Rs = 0.61, p 〈 0.01) and with the estimate from the intravenous glucose tolerance test (Rs = 0.64, p 〈 0.05). The low precision of the estimates from the model (coefficients of variation: 31% for insulin resistance and 32% for β-cell deficit) limits its use, but the correlation of the model's estimates with patient data accords with the hypothesis that basal glucose and insulin interactions are largely determined by a simple feed back loop.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1573-4919
    Keywords: salivary glands ; volume regulation ; fluid secretion ; osmoregulation ; stimulus-secretion coupling ; intracellular signalling
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The application of Ca2+ mobilizing secretagogues to rat parotid acini results in a significant decrease in cell volume (15-30%) due to isotonic salt loss. It is often assumed that the effects of such an isotonic volume decrease can be mimicked by anisotonic cell shrinkage. We demonstrate that the Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransporter in these cells is up-regulated by Ca2+ mobilizing secretagogues as well as by cell shrinkage in hypertonic media. However, we find that although the protein kinase inhibitors staurosporine (0.3 μM) and K252a (0.6 μM) significantly blunt the latter up-regulation, they are without effect on the former. These observations suggest that hypertonic and isotonic shrinkage do not result in the activation of the same intracellular signalling pathways, and indicate that anisotonic volume perturbations may not provide good experimental models of physiologic isotonic volume changes.
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