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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-12-21
pubmed:abstractText
L-Glutamine enhances insulin release evoked by L-leucine in isolated rat pancreatic islets. The enhancing action of L-glutamine, which is a rapid but steadily increasing and not rapidly reversible phenomenon is not attributable to any major change in either K+ or Ca2+ outflow from the islet cells. It coincides with an apparent increase in Ca2+ inflow rate and, hence, with Ca accumulation in the islets. The initial ionic response to L-leucine is not qualitatively altered by the presence of L-glutamine. In their combined capacity to stimulate 45Ca net uptake in the islets, L-glutamine can be replaced by L-asparagine but not by L-glutamate, whereas L-leucine can be replaced by L-norvaline or L-isoleucine, but not by L-valine, glycine or L-lysine. Such a specificity is identical to that characterizing the effect of these various amino acids upon insulin release. It is postulated that the release of insulin evoked by the combination of L-leucine and L-glutamine involves essentially the same remodelling of ionic fluxes as that evoked by other nutrient secretagogues with, however, an unusual time course for the functional response to L-glutamine.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
391
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
112-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
The stimulus-secretion coupling of amino acid-induced insulin release. IV. Ionic response to L-Leucine and L-Glutamine.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't