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HORMONES AND SIGNALING
1Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; 2Unité de Nutrition et Métabolisme Protéique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherches en Nutrition Humaine de Clermont-Ferrand, Ceyrat, France; and 3Diabetes Research and Training Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Submitted 21 March 2005 ; accepted in final form 26 July 2005
Whether glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 requires the hepatic portal vein to elicit its insulin secretion-independent effects on glucose disposal in vivo was assessed in conscious dogs using tracer and arteriovenous difference techniques. In study 1, six conscious overnight-fasted dogs underwent oral glucose tolerance testing (OGTT) to determine target GLP-1 concentrations during clamp studies. Peak arterial and portal values during OGTT ranged from 23 to 65 pM and from 46 to 113 pM, respectively. In study 2, we conducted hyperinsulinemic-hyperglycemic clamp experiments consisting of three periods (P1, P2, and P3) during which somatostatin, glucagon, insulin and glucose were infused. The control group received saline, the PePe group received GLP-1 (1 pmol·kg1·min1) peripherally, the PePo group received GLP-1 (1 pmol·kg1·min1) peripherally (P2) and then intraportally (P3), and the PeHa group received GLP-1 (1 pmol·kg1·min1) peripherally (P2) and then through the hepatic artery (P3) to increase the hepatic GLP-1 load to the same extent as in P3 in the PePo group (n = 8 dogs/group). Arterial GLP-1 levels increased similarly in all groups during P2 (
50 pM), whereas portal GLP-1 levels were significantly increased (2-fold) in the PePo vs. PePe and PeHa groups during P3. During P2, net hepatic glucose uptake (NHGU) increased slightly but not significantly (vs. P1) in all groups. During P3, GLP-1 increased NHGU in the PePo and PeHa groups more than in the control and PePe groups (change of 10.8 ± 1.3 and 10.6 ± 1.0 vs. 5.7 ± 1.0 and 5.4 ± 0.8 µmol·kg1·min1, respectively, P < 0.05). In conclusion, physiological GLP-1 levels increase glucose disposal in the liver, and this effect does not involve GLP-1 receptors located in the portal vein.
glucose uptake; dog; oral glucose tolerance test; glucagon-like peptide-1
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