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- Morettini, Micaela, et al.
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Hepatic and extrahepatic insulin clearance in mice with double deletion of glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptors
- 2021
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Ingår i: Biomedicines. - : MDPI AG. - 2227-9059. ; 9:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate whether incretins, at physiological levels, affect hepatic and/or extrahepatic insulin clearance. Hepatic and extrahepatic insulin clearance was studied in 31 double incretin receptor knockout (DIRKO) and 45 wild-type (WT) mice, which underwent an Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test (IVGTT). A novel methodology based on mathematical modeling was designed to provide two sets of values (FEL-P1, CLP-P1; FEL-P2, CLP-P2 ) accounting for hepatic and extrahepatic clearance in the IVGTT first and second phases, respectively, plus the respective total clearances, CLT-P1 and CLT-P2 . A statistically significant difference between DIRKO and WT was found in CLT-P1 (0.61 [0.48–0.82] vs. 0.51 [0.46–0.65] (median [interquartile range]); p = 0.02), which was reflected in the peripheral component, CLP-P1 (0.18 [0.13–0.27] vs. 0.15 [0.11–0.22]; p = 0.04), but not in the hepatic component, FEL-P1 (29.7 [26.7–34.9] vs. 28.9 [25.7–32.0]; p = 0.18). No difference was detected between DIRKO and WT in CLT-P2 (1.38 [1.13–1.75] vs. 1.69 [1.48–1.87]; p = 0.10), neither in CLP-P2 (0.72 [0.64–0.81] vs. 0.79 [0.69–0.87]; p = 0.27) nor in FEL-P2 (37.8 [35.1–43.1] vs. 39.8 [35.8–44.2]; p = 0.46). In conclusion, our findings suggest that the higher insulin clearance observed in DIRKO compared with WT during the IVGTT first phase may be due to its extrahepatic component.
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- Morettini, Micaela, et al.
(författare)
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Mathematical Model of Glucagon Kinetics for the Assessment of Insulin-Mediated Glucagon Inhibition During an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Endocrinology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-2392. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glucagon is secreted from the pancreatic alpha cells and plays an important role in the maintenance of glucose homeostasis, by interacting with insulin. The plasma glucose levels determine whether glucagon secretion or insulin secretion is activated or inhibited. Despite its relevance, some aspects of glucagon secretion and kinetics remain unclear. To gain insight into this, we aimed to develop a mathematical model of the glucagon kinetics during an oral glucose tolerance test, which is sufficiently simple to be used in the clinical practice. The proposed model included two first-order differential equations -one describing glucagon and the other describing C-peptide in a compartment remote from plasma - and yielded a parameter of possible clinical relevance (i.e., SGLUCA(t), glucagon-inhibition sensitivity to glucose-induced insulin secretion). Model was validated on mean glucagon data derived from the scientific literature, yielding values for SGLUCA(t) ranging from -15.03 to 2.75 (ng of glucagon·nmol of C-peptide-1). A further validation on a total of 100 virtual subjects provided reliable results (mean residuals between -1.5 and 1.5 ng·L-1) and a negative significant linear correlation (r = -0.74, p < 0.0001, 95% CI: -0.82 – -0.64) between SGLUCA(t) and the ratio between the areas under the curve of suprabasal remote C-peptide and glucagon. Model reliability was also proven by the ability to capture different patterns in glucagon kinetics. In conclusion, the proposed model reliably reproduces glucagon kinetics and is characterized by sufficient simplicity to be possibly used in the clinical practice, for the estimation in the single individual of some glucagon-related parameters.
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- Ohlsson, Lena, et al.
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Glucose-lowering effect of the DPP-4 inhibitor sitagliptin after glucose and non-glucose macronutrient ingestion in non-diabetic subjects.
- 2013
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Ingår i: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. - : Wiley. - 1462-8902. ; 15:6, s. 531-537
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIM: Recent studies suggest that the incretin concept is not restricted to glucose ingestion but relevant also after non-glucose macronutrient administration. We therefore hypothesized that raising incretin hormones reduces circulating glucose after both glucose and non-glucose macronutrient ingestion in healthy subjects. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twelve healthy subjects received the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor sitagliptin (100mg) or placebo before ingestion of glucose, fat (olive oil) or protein mix in equicaloric amounts (8 kcal/kg) plus paracetamol (1g). The 120-min AUC of intact GLP-1, glucose, insulin, C-peptide, glucagon and paracetamol, and model-derived insulin secretion (ISR), insulin sensitivity, insulin clearance and glucose absorption were measured. RESULTS: The increased plasma intact GLP-1 levels after each macronutrient was augmented by sitagliptin. This was associated with a robust lowering of glucose: glucose excursion after oral glucose was diminished, and glucose fell below baseline after oral fat and protein. In spite of lower glucose, AUC(C) (-peptide) and ISR did not differ significantly between sitagliptin and placebo after any macronutrient. AUC(glucagon) , insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance were also not different between sitagliptin and placebo. Glucose absorption after oral glucose was reduced by sitagliptin, whereas AUC(paracetamol) was not statistically different between sitagliptin and placebo. CONCLUSIONS: Physiological elevation of intact GLP-1 levels after ingestion of glucose and non-glucose macronutrients is robustly glucose-lowering in healthy subjects. Hence, the incretin concept is not restricted to glucose ingestion in normal physiology. The glucose-lowering action of sitagliptin at these low glucose levels in healthy subjects may have complex mechanisms, involving both islet-dependent and islet-independent mechanisms.
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| 24. |
- Omar, Bilal, et al.
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Differential Development of Glucose Intolerance and Pancreatic Islet Adaptation in Multiple Diet Induced Obesity Models
- 2012
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Ingår i: Nutrients. - : MDPI AG. - 2072-6643. ; 4:10, s. 1367-1381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The C57BL/6 mouse fed a high fat diet is a common and valuable model in experimental studies of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Different high fat diets are used and in order to determine which diet produces a model most accurately resembling human T2D, they need to be compared head-to-head. Methods: Four different diets, the 60% high fat diet (HFD) and the 58% high fat-high sucrose Surwit diet (HFHS) and their respective controls, were compared in C57BL/6J mice using glucose tolerance tests (IVGTT) and the euglycemic clamp. Results: Mice fed a HFD gained more weight than HFHS fed mice despite having similar energy intake. Both high fat diet models were glucose intolerant after eight weeks. Mice fed the HFD had elevated basal insulin, which was not seen in the HFHS group. The acute insulin response (AIR) was unchanged in the HFD group, but slightly increased in the HFHS diet group. The HFHS diet group had a threefold greater total insulin secretion during the IVGTT compared to its control, while no differences were seen in the HFD group. Insulin sensitivity was decreased fourfold in the HFD group, but not in the HFHS diet group. Conclusion: The HFD and HFHS diet models show differential effects on the development of insulin resistance and beta cell adaptation. These discrepancies are important to acknowledge in order to select the appropriate diet for specific studies.
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| 25. |
- Omar, Bilal, et al.
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Impact of glucose dosing regimens on modeling of glucose tolerance and β-cell function by intravenous glucose tolerance test in diet-induced obese mice.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Physiological Reports. - : Wiley. - 2051-817X. ; 2:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Insulin sensitivity declines in overweight and obese individuals and, under normal conditions, insulin secretion adaptively increases which in healthy non-diabetic subjects maintains normal glycemia. This adaptation is best described by the disposition index derived from modeling of insulin and glucose data from an intravenous glucose tolerance testing (IVGTT). One caveat of the IVGTT is that basing the glucose dose on the individual total body weight can result in large differences in the amount of glucose given to lean and obese individuals. The effect this has on determination of insulin sensitivity and β-cell function is unknown. In this study, we therefore evaluated alternative glucose dosing regimens for determination of the impact of glucose dosing on measures of β-cell function in normal and diet-induced obese (DIO) mice. The glucose dosing regimens used for the IVGTT were 0.35 mg per kg total body weight (BW) or per kg lean BW or a fixed glucose dose based on the average BW for all experimental mice. Each regimen detected a similar decrease in insulin sensitivity in DIO mice. The different glucose dosing regimens gave, however, diverging results in regard to glucose elimination and the acute insulin response. Thus, the fixed-dose regimen was the only that revealed impairment of glucose elimination, whereas dosing according to total BW was the only regimen which showed significant increases in acute insulin response in DIO mice. The fixed-dose glucose dosing regimen was the only that revealed a significant decline in the disposition index value in DIO mice, which is characteristic of type 2 diabetes in humans. Our results therefore show that using different glucose dosing regimens during IVGTT in DIO mice one can model different aspects of physiology which are similar to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in humans, with the fixed-dose regimen producing a phenotype that most closely resembles human type 2 diabetes.
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| 26. |
- Ovlund, Tina, et al.
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Impact of Incretin Hormone Receptors on Insulin-Independent Glucose Disposal in Model Experiments in Mice
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Endocrinology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-2392. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A large contribution to glucose elimination from the circulation is achieved by insulin-independent processes. We have previously shown that the two incretin hormones, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) increase this process and, therefore, seem to contribute to glucose disposal both through this effect and through the classical incretin effect resulting in enhanced insulin levels. We have now explored in more detail the potential contribution by incretin hormone receptors to insulin-independent processes for glucose elimination. To that end, we have performed intravenous glucose tests (0.35g/kg) in C57BL/6J mice and analyzed glucose elimination rate and glucose effectiveness (i.e., insulin-independent glucose disposal, SG) in wildtype mice and in mice with genetic deletion of GIP receptors or GLP-1 receptors. We performed studies with or without complete blockade of insulin secretion by the drug diazoxide (25 mg/kg). The mice were anesthetized with a novel fentanyl citrate/fluanisone formulation, called Fluafent, together with midazolam. Initially we demonstrated that glucose and insulin data after intravenous and oral glucose were not different using this anesthesia compared to the previously commonly used combination of HypnormR and midazolam. The results show that SG was reduced in GLP-1 receptor knockout mice, whereas there was no difference between GIP receptor knockout mice and wildtype mice, and this was evident both under normal conditions and after complete inhibition of insulin secretion. The study therefore indicates that insulin-independent glucose elimination requires active GLP-1 receptors and thus that the two incretin hormone receptor types show dissociated relevance for this process.
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| 27. |
- Pacini, Giovanni, et al.
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Assessing the Effect of Incretin Hormones and Other Insulin Secretagogues on Pancreatic Beta-Cell Function : Review on Mathematical Modelling Approaches
- 2022
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Ingår i: Biomedicines. - : MDPI AG. - 2227-9059. ; 10:5
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mathematical modelling in glucose metabolism has proven very useful for different reasons. Several models have allowed deeper understanding of the relevant physiological and pathophysiological aspects and promoted new experimental activity to reach increased knowledge of the biological and physiological systems of interest. Glucose metabolism modelling has also proven useful to identify the parameters with specific physiological meaning in single individuals, this being relevant for clinical applications in terms of precision diagnostics or therapy. Among those model-based physiological parameters, an important role resides in those for the assessment of different functional aspects of the pancreatic beta cell. This study focuses on the mathematical models of incretin hormones and other endogenous substances with known effects on insulin secretion and beta-cell function, mainly amino acids, non-esterified fatty acids, and glucagon. We found that there is a relatively large number of mathematical models for the effects on the beta cells of incretin hormones, both at the cellular/organ level or at the higher, whole-body level. In contrast, very few models were identified for the assessment of the effect of other insulin secretagogues. Given the opportunities offered by mathematical modelling, we believe that novel models in the investigated field are certainly advisable.
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| 28. |
- Pacini, Giovanni, et al.
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Dissociated effects of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide vs glucagon-like peptide-1 on beta-cell secretion and insulin clearance in mice
- 2010
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Ingår i: Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental. - : Elsevier BV. - 1532-8600. ; 59:7, s. 988-992
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) potently augment insulin response to glucose. It is less known what their effects are insulin clearance, which also contributes to peripheral hyperinsulinemia observed after administration of incretins together with glucose. The aims of this study were the quantification of C-peptide secretion and the evaluation of insulin clearance after administration of GIP with glucose. This allows the assessment of GIP's effects on hyperinsulinemia. In addition, GIP's effects were compared with those of GLP-1. Anesthetized female NMRI mice were injected intravenously with glucose alone (1 g/kg, n = 35) or glucose together with GIP (50 mu g/kg, n = 12). Samples were taken through the following 50 minutes, and C-peptide and insulin concentrations were used to reconstruct C-peptide secretion rate and insulin clearance. In a previous study, GLP-1 (10 mu g/kg) was used in 12 mice; and we used those GLP-1 results to compare GIP effects with those of GLP-1. C-peptide secretion rate peaked at 1 minute after glucose injection, and the immediate part of the insulin-releasing process was markedly augmented by both incretin hormones (1-minute suprabasal increment secretory rate was 20 +/- 2 pmol/min for GIP and 28 +/- 2 pmol/min for GLP-1, vs only 9 +/- 1 pmol/min for glucose alone; P < .001). Until 10 minutes after administration, C-peptide secretion remained higher with incretins (P < .0001), whereas starting from 20 minutes, the 3 patterns were undistinguishable (P > .2). Insulin clearance, previously shown to be abridged by 46% with GLP-1, was reduced only by a nonsignificant (P = .27) 21% with GIP. This study thus shows that the 2 incretins markedly augment glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in mice by a preferential action on the immediate response to glucose of insulin secretion. However, the action of GIP is less effective than that of GLP-1. Insulin clearance with GIP is not significantly reduced. We conclude that GIP is less potent than GLP-1 in inducing glucose-stimulated hyperinsulinemia in the mouse. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Pacini, Giovanni, et al.
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Glucagon and GLP-1 exhibit no synergistic enhancement of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in mice.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Peptides. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-5169 .- 0196-9781. ; 71:Jun 26, s. 66-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The combination of glucagon and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has been suggested as an approach to target obesity, since the two hormones have complementary action on body weight. We examined whether complementary action of the two hormones also exist on insulin secretion. Female C57BL/6 mice were injected intravenously with glucose with or without GLP-1, glucagon or the combination of GLP-1 and glucagon at three different dose levels. Furthermore, freshly isolated mouse islets were incubated for 30min in with the presence of 2.8, 11.1 or 16.7mmol/l glucose or with 11.1mmol/l glucose in the presence of 100 nmol/l glucagon and/or GLP-1. It was found that at 1min after glucose injection alone, insulin rose to a peak level and this peak, as well as the 50min area under the insulin curve (AUC insulin) were dose-dependently augmented by GLP-1 and glucagon. However, peak insulin with the two hormones together (with glucose) was not higher than after either single administration at any of the tested doses, i.e., no additive of synergistic action was observed by the combination on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Similar results were observed when calculating insulin for the whole test period. Also in vitro, both glucagon and GLP-1 augmented insulin secretion; however, there was no difference between the combined stimulation of insulin secretion by GLP-1 and glucagon together compared with either hormone alone. Insulin sensitivity did not exhibit significant changes from the glucose only condition. We conclude that the acute combined administration of the strongly insulinotropic GLP-1 and glucagon, both in vivo and in vitro, did not induce any additive or synergistic action on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. This shows that the risk of a marked insulinotropic action when the two compounds are given together most likely does not result in increased risk of hypoglycemia.
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- Pacini, Giovanni, et al.
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide : effects alone and in combination on insulin secretion and glucose disappearance in mice
- 2017
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Ingår i: Physiological Reports. - : Wiley. - 2051-817X. ; 5:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) stimulate insulin secretion. They are both released after meal ingestion, and therefore they might cooperate in their actions. However, whether there is a cooperative action of the two incretins is not known. This study therefore investigated the effects on insulin secretion and glucose disappearance of GLP-1 and GIP when given together with intravenous glucose both alone and in combination in mice. Four different doses were used (0.003, 0.03, 0.3 and 3.0 nmol/kg), which ranged from subthreshold to maximal doses to stimulate first-phase insulin secretion as evident from initial dose–response studies. It was found that at 0.03 nmol/kg and higher doses, glucose-stimulated insulin secretion was augmented by both incretins. When they were given in combination, no further increase was observed, indicating no synergistic effect. Also, glucose disappearance rate was increased by 0.03 and 3.0 nmol/kg of the two incretins, both when they were given alone and in combination with, again, no synergy. Finally, glucose effectiveness (an index of noninsulin-mediated processes) was enhanced by the two incretins, in particular GIP. We also found that insulin-dependent and insulin-independent mechanisms contributed 38% and 62%, respectively, to glucose tolerance after glucose alone; with GIP, the contribution by noninsulin-dependent processes was remarkably dominant and with GLP-1, insulin-dependent processes were prevailing. In conclusion, GIP and GLP-1 stimulate insulin secretion and glucose effectiveness in mice with no synergistic action, but with a dissociated contributory effector on glucose disposal: with GLP-1 being more active on insulin-dependent processes and GIP more active on noninsulin-dependent processes.
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