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  • Title: Diminished inhibitory effect of noradrenaline on insulin release from mouse islets transplanted to kidney.
    Author: Shi CL, Täljedal IB.
    Journal: Acta Diabetol; 1995 Jun; 32(2):116-20. PubMed ID: 7579532.
    Abstract:
    Insulin release is inhibited by adrenergic alpha-2 agonism in normal beta-cells. To test whether the inhibitory response to noradrenaline is modified by transplantation, we studied insulin release from freshly isolated islets and from syngeneic islets transplanted under the kidney capsule of non-diabetic C57BL/6 mice. When perifused in vitro, fresh islets, as well as grafts harvested 1 or 3 weeks after transplantation, reacted to 2.5 mumol/l noradrenaline with a complete inhibition of insulin release induced by 16.7 mmol/l D-glucose. In contrast, islet grafts harvested after 6, 12, or 21 weeks exhibited a conspicuous insulin secretory response to 16.7 mmol/l glucose in the presence of 2.5 mumol/l noradrenaline. Also a concentration of 0.25 mumol/l, noradrenaline inhibited the glucose-induced insulin release from fresh islets but not from 6-week-old islet grafts. It is concluded that transplantation under the kidney capsule induces a decreased inhibitory responsiveness to noradrenaline in islet grafts.
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