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  • Title: Enhanced glucose tolerance in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Pancreatic beta-cell hyperfunction with normal insulin sensitivity.
    Author: Buchanan TA, Youn JH, Campese VM, Sipos GF.
    Journal: Diabetes; 1992 Jul; 41(7):872-8. PubMed ID: 1612202.
    Abstract:
    We used intravenous glucose tolerance tests in vivo and 3-O-methylglucose transport into skeletal muscle in vitro to assess glucose tolerance, pancreatic beta-cell function, and insulin action in 9- to 11-wk-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and age-matched normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). Body weight was slightly higher in the WKY (P less than 0.001), while blood pressure was elevated in the SHR (P less than 0.001). Insulin responses to intravenous glucose after 4 or 12 h of fasting in SHR were 2-3 times the responses of WKY rats (P less than 0.001). The greater insulin responses in SHR were associated with accelerated glucose disappearance P less than 0.001 vs. WKY rats). A direct correlation (r = 0.49, P less than 0.05) between the peak plasma insulin responses to glucose and Kg values in SHR suggested that the exaggerated insulin responses contributed to the accelerated glucose disappearance in that group. 3-O-methylglucose transport rates into epitrochlearis muscles in vitro did not differ significantly between SHR and WKY groups in the absence of insulin (P less than 0.2) or in the presence of insulin at physiological (600 pM, P greater than 0.4) or pharmacological (120,000 pM, P greater than 0.9) concentrations. Thus, compared with WKY rats, SHR had exaggerated insulin responses to glucose, similar insulin-mediated glucose transport into skeletal muscle, and enhanced glucose tolerance. Our findings indicate that young, hypertensive SHR have hyperfunction of pancreatic beta-cells that is unrelated to insulin resistance. The resultant nutrient-stimulated hyperinsulinemia could play a role in the development or maintenance of elevated blood pressure in SHR.
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