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METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL
卷 60, 期 4, 页码 550-556出版社
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2010.05.009
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- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation [1-2003-78, 1-2006-29]
- Diabetes Research Wellness Foundation
- Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre for Study of Obesity and Related Disorders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [R01DK065171]
- American Diabetes Association
- Wellcome Trust
- Sir Jules Thorne Trust
- Evelyn Trust
- S. Moore by a Medical Research Council
- Elmore Fund
- Diabetes UK [RD05/003059]
- Medical Research Council [G0600717B] Funding Source: researchfish
The mechanisms underpinning impaired defensive counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia that develop in some people with diabetes who suffer recurrent episodes of hypoglycemia are unknown. Previous work examining whether this is a consequence of increased glucose delivery to the hypothalamus, postulated to be the major hypoglycemia-sensing region, has been inconclusive. Here, we hypothesized instead that increased hypothalamic glucose phosphorylation, the first committed intracellular step in glucose metabolism, might develop following exposure to hypoglycemia. We anticipated that this adaptation might tend to preserve glucose flux during hypoglycemia, thus reducing detection of a falling glucose. We first validated a model of recurrent hypoglycemia in chronically catheterized (right jugular vein) rats receiving daily injections of insulin. We confirmed that this model of recurrent insulin-induced hypoglycemia results in impaired counterregulation, with responses of the key counterregulatory hormone, epinephrine, being suppressed significantly and progressively from the first day to the fourth day of insulin-induced hypoglycemia. In another cohort, we investigated the changes in brain glucose phosphorylation activity over 4 days of recurrent insulin-induced hypoglycemia. In keeping with our hypothesis, we found that recurrent hypoglycemia markedly and significantly increased hypothalamic glucose phosphorylation activity in a day-dependent fashion, with day 4 values 2.8 +/- 0.6-fold higher than day 1 (P < .05), whereas there was no change in glucose phosphorylation activity in brain stem and frontal cortex. These findings suggest that the hypothalamus may adapt to recurrent hypoglycemia by increasing glucose phosphorylation; and we speculate that this metabolic adaptation may contribute, at least partly, to hypoglycemia-induced counterregulatory failure. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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