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. 1974 Jun;140(3):377–382. doi: 10.1042/bj1400377

Long-term effects of glucose on insulin release and glucose oxidation by mouse pancreatic islets maintained in tissue culture

Arne Andersson 1
PMCID: PMC1168014  PMID: 4614795

Abstract

Rates of glucose oxidation and insulin release in response to a wide range of glucose concentrations were studied in short-term experiments in isolated mouse pancreatic islets maintained in tissue culture for 6 days at either a physiological glucose concentration (6.7mm) or at a high glucose concentration (28mm). The curves relating glucose oxidation or insulin release to the extracellular glucose concentration obtained with islets cultured in 6.7mm-glucose displayed a sigmoid shape similar to that observed for freshly isolated non-cultured islets. By contrast islets that had been cultured in 28mm-glucose showed a linear relationship between the rate of glucose oxidation and the extracellular glucose concentration up to about 8mm-glucose. The maximal oxidative rate was twice that of the non-cultured islets and the glucose concentration associated with the half-maximal rate considerably decreased. In islets cultured at 28mm-glucose there was only a small increase in the insulin release in response to glucose, probably due to a depletion of stored insulin in those B cells that had been cultured in a high-glucose medium. It is concluded that exposure of B cells for 6 days to a glucose concentration comparable with that found in diabetic individuals causes adaptive metabolic alterations rather than degeneration of these cells.

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