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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
To determine whether insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are causally related to fructose-induced hypertension, we used vanadyl sulfate, a drug that improves insulin sensitivity in rats. Chronic oral vanadyl treatment was initiated in 6-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats. One week after vanadyl was started, rats were fed either normal rat chow or a fructose-enriched diet. Plasma glucose and insulin levels and systolic blood pressure were measured weekly for 4 weeks. Fructose feeding induced hyperinsulinemia (fructose-fed, 366.6 +/- 8.4 versus control, 276 +/- 10.8 pmol/L, P < .001) and increased blood pressure (fructose-fed, 160 +/- 3.0 versus control, 124 +/- 3.0 mm Hg, P < .001). Vanadyl (0.4 to 0.6 mmol/kg per day) prevented the rise in plasma insulin (treated, 211.2 +/- 6.0 pmol/L, P < .001) and blood pressure (treated, 127 +/- 3.0 mm Hg, P < .001) in the fructose-fed rats without a change in plasma glucose. No change in blood pressure was seen in the control group. After 4 weeks, euglycemic clamps were performed on 20-hour fasted, conscious, mobile rats. Low-dose porcine insulin infusion (14 pmol/kg per minute) with concomitant somatostatin infusion resulted in similar steady-state plasma glucose and insulin levels in the various groups. Hepatic glucose production was suppressed and similar among various groups under clamp conditions. Insulin sensitivity index (micromoles of glucose per kilogram per hour per picomole per liter of insulin) was reduced in the fructose-fed rats compared with controls (fructose-fed, 0.9 +/- 0.4 versus control, 5.4 +/- 1.2, P < .002).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0194-911X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
308-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Vanadyl sulfate prevents fructose-induced hyperinsulinemia and hypertension in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't