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  • Title: Differential effects of insulin, antibodies against rat adipocyte plasma membranes, and other agents that mimic insulin action in rat adipocytes.
    Author: Pillion DJ.
    Journal: Metabolism; 1985 Nov; 34(11):1012-9. PubMed ID: 3903429.
    Abstract:
    The effects of insulin and several insulin-mimetic agents on rat adipocyte D-glucose metabolism were studied in an effort to determine if any of the insulin-mimetic agents could be used to define the mechanism of insulin action. Antibodies against rat adipocyte plasma membranes have been characterized as having insulin-mimetic effects on glucose transport and these effects may be caused by divalent clustering of cell surface antigens. In contrast to insulin, antimembrane antibodies had little stimulatory effect on D-glucose conversion to lipids in isolated rat adipocytes, under conditions where both reagents stimulated D-glucose oxidation. Among other insulin-mimetic agents tested, the reagents hydrogen peroxide and concanavalin A most closely resembled insulin in their ability to increase both [14C]-CO2 and [14C]-lipid formation from [14C]D-glucose in rat adipocytes. Vitamin K5 and diamide had the unusual effect of inhibiting [1-14C]D-glucose conversion to [14C]-lipids at a concentration that gave maximal stimulation of glucose oxidation by rat adipocytes. Analysis of the lipid components into which glucose derivatives were incorporated revealed that insulin increased D-glucose incorporation into both nonesterified fatty acids and triglycerides and H2O2 and concanavalin A had similar effects. These findings argue against the possibility that insulin and the antimembrane antibodies or the insulin-mimetic agents other than H2O2 and concanavalin A share the same mechanism of action.
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