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To determine the effects of troglitazone on abnormal skeletal muscle glucose metabolism, muscle cultures from type II diabetic patients were grown for 4-6 weeks and then fused for 4 days either without or with troglitazone (1-5 micrograms/mL; chronic studies) or had troglitazone added for 90 min (1-5 micrograms/mL) at completion of fusion (acute studies). Acute troglitazone treatment stimulated glucose uptake, but not glycogen synthase (GS) activity 2-fold (P < 0.05) in a dose-dependent fashion and to the same extent as the addition of maximal (33 nmol/L) insulin. Maximal chronic troglitazone (5 micrograms/mL for 4 days) increased both glucose uptake (from 9.0 +/- 1.5 to 40.9 +/- 8.1 pmol/mg protein.min; P < 0.05) and GS fractional velocity (from 5.4 +/- 0.7% to 20.6 +/- 6.3%; P < 0.05) by approximately 4-fold. At each concentration of chronic troglitazone, glucose uptake rates were similar in the absence and presence of maximal (33 nmol/L) insulin concentrations. In contrast, insulin-stimulated GS activity was greater (P < 0.05) when maximal chronic troglitazone and acute insulin were combined than when chronic troglitazone alone was used. After 4 days of troglitazone, GLUT1 messenger ribonucleic acid and protein increased about 2-fold (P < 0.05) without a change in GLUT4 or GS messenger ribonucleic acid and protein. We conclude that troglitazone has both acute and chronic effects to improve skeletal muscle glucose metabolism of obese type II diabetic subjects. These effects involve direct insulin mimetic stimulatory actions as well as indirect insulin-sensitizing properties.

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pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Chromans, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Diabetes Mellitus, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Glucose Transporter Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Glycogen Synthase, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Hypoglycemic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Monosaccharide Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Thiazoles, pubmed-meshheading:9589670-Thiazolidinediones

Troglitazone regulation of glucose metabolism in human skeletal muscle cultures from obese type II diabetic subjects.

Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't