EFFECT OF INSULIN ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND DISPOSITION OF GLUCOSE IN MAN
EFFECT OF INSULIN ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND DISPOSITION OF GLUCOSE IN MAN
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DOI:
10.1172/jci111969
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
DEFRONZO, RA
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作者:
FERRANNINI, E;SMITH, JD;DEFRONZO, RA
Understanding the influence of insulin on glucose turnover is the key to interpreting a great number of metabolic situations. Little is known, however, about insulin''s effect on the distribution and exchange of glucose in body pools. A physiological compartmental model was developed to describe the kinetics of plasma glucose in normal man in the basal state and under steady-state conditions of euglycemic hyperinsulinemia. A bolus of [3-3H]glucose was rapidly injected into a peripheral vein in 6 healthy volunteers, and the time-course of plasma radioactivity was monitored at very short time intervals for 150 min. A 1-mU/min kg insulin clamp was then started, thereby raising plasma insulin levels to a high physiological plateau (.apprx. 100 .mu.U/ml). After 90 min of stable euglycemic hyperinsulinemia, a 2nd bolus of [3-3H]glucose was given, and plasma radioactivity was again sampled frequently for 90 min more while the clamp was continued. Three exponential components were clearly identified in the plasma disappearance curves of tracer glucose of each subject studied, both before and after insulin. Based on stringent statistical criteria, the data in the basal were fitted to a three-compartment model. The compartmental of initial distribution was identical to the plasma pool (40 .+-. 3 mg/kg); the other 2 compartments had similar size (91 .+-. 12 and 96 .+-. 9 mg/kg), but the former was in rapid exchange with plasma (at an average rate of 1.09 .+-. 0.15 min-1), whereas the latter exchanged 10 times more slowly (0.12 .+-. 0.01 min-1). The basal rate of glucose turnover averaged 2.15 .+-. 0.12 mg/min kg, and the total distribution volume of glucose in the postabsorptive state was 26 .+-. 1% of body weight. In view of current physiological information, it was assumed that the more rapidly exchanging pool represented the insulin-independent tissues of the body, while the slowly exchanging pool was assimilated to the insulin-dependent tissues. Insulin-independent glucose uptake was estimated (from published data) at 75% of basal glucose uptake, and was constrained not to change with euglycemic hyperinsulinemia. When the kinetic data obtained during insulin administration were fitted to this model, neither the size nore the exchange rates of the plasma or the rapid pool were appreciably changed. In contrast, the slow pool was markedly expanded (from 96 .+-. 9 to 190 .+-. 30 mg/kg, P < 0.02) at the same time as total glucose disposal rose 4-fold above basal (to 7.96 .+-. 0.85 mg/min kg, P < 0.001). A significant direct correlation was found to exist between the change in size of the slow pool and the insulin-stimulated rate of total glucose turnover (r = 0.92, P < 0.01). Hyperinsulinemia, independent of hyperglycemia, markedly increases the exchangeable mass of glucose in the body, presumably reflecting the accumulation of free, intracellular glucose in insulin-dependent tissues.