REDUCED BETA-CELL GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER IN NEW ONSET DIABETIC BB RATS
REDUCED BETA-CELL GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER IN NEW ONSET DIABETIC BB RATS
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DOI:
10.1172/jci114883
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发表时间:
1990-11-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
THORENS, B
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作者:
ORCI, L;UNGER, RH;THORENS, B
Previous studies from our laboratories have suggested a defect in glucose transport in islets isolated from BB rats on the first day of overt diabetes. To quantitate by immunostaining the glucose transport of .beta.-cells (GLUT-2) before and at the onset of autoimmune diabetes we employed an antibody to its COOH-terminal octapeptide. On the first day of overt diabetes, defined as the day the daily blood glucose first reached 200 mg/dl, the volume density ratio of GLUT-2-positive to insulin-positive .beta.-cells was only 0.48 .+-. 0.06, compared to 0.91 .+-. 0.02 in age-matched nondiabetic diabetes-resistant controls (P < 0.001). In age-matched nondiabetic diabetes-prone rats, most of which would have become diabetic, the ratio was 0.85 .+-. 0.02, also less than the controls (P < 0.05). Protein A-gold labeling of GLUT-2 in .beta.-cell 1 diabetic rats revealed 2.17 .+-. 0.16 gold particles per micrometer length of microvillar plasma membranes compared to 3.9 .+-. 0.14 in controls (P < 0.001) and 2.87 .+-. 0.24 in the nondiabetic diabetes-prone rats (P < 0.02). Reduction in GLUT-2 correlates temporally with and may contribute to the loss of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion that precedes profound .beta.-cell depletion of autoimmune diabetes.