Effects of Acute Insulin Excess and Deficiency on Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenolysis in Type 1 Diabetes
【关键词】 Acute,Insulin
From the Division of Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism and the General Clinical Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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To determine whether insulin induces acute changes in endogenous glucose production (EGP) via changes in gluconeogenesis (GNG), glycogenolysis (GL), or both, we measured GNG (with 2H2O) and GL (EGP-GNG) in nine patients with type 1 diabetes during acute insulin excess produced by subcutaneous injection of insulin and during insulin deficiency which developed between 5 and 8 h after insulin injection. During insulin excess, free insulin concentration rose fivefold (from 36 to 180 pmol/l). Plasma glucose was maintained between 6.2 and 6.7 mmol/l for 4 h with IV glucose. EGP (with 6,6-2H glucose) decreased from 17.1 to 9.8 µmol ・ kg-1 ・ min-1 after 1 h. This decrease was almost completely accounted for by a decrease in GL (from 10.7 to 4.6 µmol ・ kg-1 ・ min-1). During insulin deficiency, plasma glucose rose from 6.2 to 10.5 mmol/l and EGP from 9.5 to 14.3 µmol/kg min. The increase in EGP again was accounted for by an increase in GL.
We conclude that in type 1 diabetes acute regulation of EGP by insulin is mainly via changes in GL while GNG changes little during the early hours of acute insulin excess or deficiency.
Many patients with type 1 diabetes experience almost daily episodes of hypoglycemia caused by insulin excess or hyperglycemia caused by insulin deficiency (1). These problems are due in large part to excessive or insufficient insulin-induced suppression of endogenous glucose production (EGP). It is not known, however, whether these hypo- or hyperglycemic episodes in patients with type 1 diabetes are the consequence of excessive or insufficient suppression of gluconeogenesis (GNG) or glycogenolysis (GL), the two components of EGP, or a combination of both. The main reason for this uncertainty is that until recently, in vivo rates of GNG and GL could not be measured reliably in human subjects, primarily because hepatic GNG precursor-specific activities were unknown due to unpredictable dilution of the labeled precursors in the oxalacetic acid pool, which is shared by GNG and the tricarboxylic acid cycle (2). Recently, several methods have become available that allow accurate and noninvasive measurement of GNG (3

