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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
In vivo studies have shown that insulin resistance in late pregnancy results from a decreased sensitivity of liver and peripheral tissues. In the present study, measurements of the rates of glucose utilization by skeletal muscles (soleus, extensor digitorum longus, epitrochlearis, and diaphragm), white adipose tissue, and brain of virgin and 19-day pregnant rats were performed in the basal condition and during a euglycemic, hyperinsulinemic (400 microU/ml) clamp to quantify the partition of glucose utilization and to identify the tissues other than liver responsible for insulin resistance. Fetal and placental glucose utilization rates were also measured in pregnant rats. The fetal glucose utilization rate (22 mg/min/kg) was very high and was not stimulated by physiologic maternal hyperinsulinemia. By contrast, the placental glucose utilization rate (29 mg/min/kg) was increased by 30% during hyperinsulinemia. The glucose utilization rate of the conceptus represented 23% of the maternal glucose utilization rate in the basal state. Glucose utilization rates in the basal condition were not statistically altered by pregnancy in brain, skeletal muscles, and white adipose tissue. During hyperinsulinemia (400 microU/ml), glucose utilization rates in extensor digitorum longus, epitrochlearis, and white adipose tissue were 30-70% lower in pregnant than in virgin rats. Insulin sensitivity of glucose metabolism in all the tissues tested other than brain was 50% lower in pregnant than in virgin rats. We conclude that skeletal muscles and, to a smaller extent, adipose tissue are involved in the insulin resistance of late pregnancy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0012-1797
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
172-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Female, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Fetus, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Guinea Pigs, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Horses, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Hyperinsulinism, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Insulin Resistance, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Muscles, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Placenta, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Pregnancy, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Sheep, pubmed-meshheading:3510923-Swine
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Glucose utilization rates and insulin sensitivity in vivo in tissues of virgin and pregnant rats.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't