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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-2
pubmed:abstractText
In the GK rat model of type 2 diabetes, adenylyl cyclase (AC) expression and stimulation are increased. Whether the prevalent glucose level has any effects on AC responses is, however, unclear. We have studied concurrent insulin release and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) generation in response to 5 microM forskolin in islets cultured for 48 hours in 5.5 or 11 mM glucose. Insulin release was impaired in GK rat islets, irrespective of culture condition, in response to 3.3 and 16.7 mM glucose and was fully restored by forskolin through exaggerated insulin responses. Stimulation of normal islets with 5 microM forskolin elicited different islet cAMP responses, which were dependent on the dose of glucose in the culture medium. Thus in normal islets cultured in 11 mM glucose, forskolin increased cAMP levels fivefold to sixfold at 3.3 and 16.7 mM glucose, whereas forskolin increased cAMP levels only twofold in islets cultured at 5.5 mM glucose. In GK islets, forskolin induced a consistently exaggerated approximately eightfold increase in cAMP generation irrespective of glucose concentration in the culture medium. In conclusion, culturing normal islets at hyperglycemic glucose levels (11 mM) primed and markedly enhanced cAMP generation in response to forskolin.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0885-3177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
65-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Glucose enhances adenylyl cyclase responses in normal but not diabetic GK rat islets.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't