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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Isolated islets ; insulin release ; glucagon ; glucose ; cyclic adenosine monophosphate
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Glucose stimulation increased the cAMP content of collagenase-isolated rat pancreatic islets fourfold above baseline values. The elevation was transient, lasting about 5 min, and was dose-dependent. Insulin release continued at a constant rate throughout the incubation. — Glucagon, in the absence of glucose, increased cAMP for about 1 min, but only slightly, and had no effect on insulin release. In the presence of glucose, however, glucagon enhanced islet cAMP content 15-fold and increased the release of insulin. Glucagon was most effective at high glucose concentrations (16.6 and 25 mM). — This indicates that glucagon is critically dependent on the presence of glucose in order to increase the islet cAMP content and to stimulate insulin release. The inability of glucagon to generate sufficient cAMP in the absence of glucose might be one of the reasons why the hormone is a potentiator rather than an initiator of insulin release.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Islet hyperplasia ; islet DNA ; islet protein ; insulin release ; tolbutamide treatment ; theophylline
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Following prolonged administration of tolbutamide the DNA- and protein content per islet was enhanced but the IRI content per islet was diminished. Glucose-induced (2.0,8.0 or 16.6 mM) and leucine-induced (12.5 or 25.0 mM) IRI release from isolated islets, as well as 14CO2-production from U-14C glucose, were decreased. Theophylline (5.0 mM) restored the glucose sensitivity of the islets towards normal. The results indicate that tolbutamide-induced islet cell hyperplasia does not entail islet hyperfunction, as previously thought. Decreased IRI release may partially be explained by a tolbutamide-induced alteration of the adenylate cyclase/phosphodiesterase system of the B-cell.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Gastric inhibitory polypeptide ; insulin release ; isolated rat islets ; enteroinsular axis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide (GIF; 1 or 10 μg/ml) potentiated glucose-induced (8 or 16.6 mM) insulin (IRI) release from isolated rat pancreatic islets. Basal release was unaffected. The threshold concentration of glucose necessary for GIF to modulate IRI release was between 6 and 8 mM. GIP had no effect on IRI release from islets submitted to a maximal glucose stimulus (25 mM).
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  • 4
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    Journal of molecular medicine 57 (1979), S. 825-830 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Urämie ; α-Ketosäuren ; Stickstoff ; Proteinrestriktion ; Metabolismus ; Uremia ; α-Ketoacids ; Nitrogen ; Protein restriction ; Metabolism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Serum levels of branched-chain keto acids (BCKA's), i.e., α-keto-isocaproic acid (KICA), α-keto-isovaleric acid (KIVA) and α-keto-β-methyl-n-valeric acid (KMVA) as well as their corresponding amino acids were determined in uremic patients with compensated chronic renal failure, patients on hemodialysis, and in subjects without renal insufficiency. Uremic patients had significantly lower BCKA levels than controls without renal insufficiency. There was a negative correlation between serum BCKA's and the levels of blood urea and creatinine. BCKA's were detectable in the hemofiltrate. The concentrations of KICA and KMVA were significantly higher, that of KIVA identical compared to the respective concentrations in the hemofiltrate. This suggests a different protein binding of BCKA's. Oral administration of 5 g Ca-KICA to a healthy subject resulted in a transient increase in serum KICA and leucine. The maximum increase in KICA preceded the leucine peak. Serum BCKA levels did not change significantly in patients with compensated renal failure, who were — for 28 days each — first on an unrestricted diet plus supplementation, then solely on an unrestricted diet, followed by a protein-restricted diet (0.5 g/kg/day) plus supplementation and finally on a protein-restricted diet alone. Supplementation was with 5 essential amino acids, 4 keto acids and 1 hydroxyacid (6–9 g/day). The determination of BCKA's in serum offers a promising investigatory tool to study nitrogen metabolism in healthy and uremic subjects and might help to further evaluate the role of keto acids in the treatment of chronic renal failure.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die Serumkonzentrationen verzweigtkettiger Ketosäuren (BCKA's), d.h. α-Ketoisocapronsäure (KICA), α-Keto-isovaleriansäure (KIVA) und α-Keto-β-methyl-n-valeriansäure (KMVA) sowie ihrer korrespondierenden Aminosäuren wurden bei Urämikern mit kompensierter chronischer Niereninsuffizienz sowie bei hämodialysierten Urämikern und bei nierengesunden Kontrollen bestimmt. Urämiker hatten signifikant niedriger BCKA-Konzentrationen im Serum als nierengesunde Kontrollen. Es bestand eine negative Korrelation zwischen der BCKA-Konzentration und derjenigen von Kreatinin bzw. von Harnstoff. BCKA's ließen sich im Hämofiltrat nachweisen. Die Konzentrationen von KICA und KMVA waren signifikant höher, diejenige von KIVA identisch verglichen mit den entsprechenden Konzentrationen im Hämofiltrat. Daraus läßt sich eine unterschiedliche Eiweißbindung der BCKA's vermuten. Orale Einnahme von 5 g Ca-KICA führte bei einer gesunden Versuchsperson zu einem vorübergehenden, deutlichen Anstieg von Serum-KICA und Leuzin. Der maximale Anstieg der KICA trat früher ein als das Leuzinmaximum. Die jeweils 28tägige Gabe eines Gemisches verzweigtkettiger Keto- und Aminosäuren (6–9 g/Tag) mit oder ohne Eiweißbeschränkung der Kost auf 0,5 g/kg/Tag führte bei Patienten mit kompensierter chronischer Niereninsuffizienz zu keiner Änderung der BCKA-Konzentrationen im Serum. Die Bestimmung verzweigtkettiger Ketosäuren im Blut bietet neue Möglichkeiten zur Erforschung des Stickstoffmetabolismus sowie zur Überprüfung des Stellenwerts von Ketosäuren bei der Behandlung von Patienten mit chronischer Niereninsuffizienz.
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