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  • Title: d-Fenfluramine improves hepatic insulin action in streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
    Author: Picarel-Blanchot F, Bailbé D, Portha B.
    Journal: Eur J Pharmacol; 1994 Oct 24; 264(2):227-32. PubMed ID: 7851488.
    Abstract:
    We have examined the effect of chronic (21 days) oral administration of the serotoninergic anorectic drug d-fenfluramine (5 mg/kg) in a rat model of non-insulin-dependent diabetes (without obesity), as induced by injection of a low dose (45 mg/kg) of streptozotocin at 6 weeks, and characterized by marked hyperglycaemia and hepatic and peripheral insulin resistance. The following parameters were assessed: (1) basal blood glucose and insulin levels, and (2) basal and insulin-stimulated in vivo glucose production and glucose utilization, using the insulin-clamp technique in conjunction with isotopic measurement of glucose turnover. In the d-fenfluramine-treated diabetic rats, postabsorptive basal plasma glucose levels were decreased (7.8 +/- 0.3 mM as compared to 14.9 +/- 0.1 mM in the untreated diabetic rats) while the basal plasma insulin levels were unchanged. A similar reduction of the basal plasma glucose levels was observed in the pair-fed untreated diabetic group (8.3 +/- 0.2 mM). Basal glucose turnover was reduced by 45% (P < 0.01) in the d-fenfluramine-treated diabetic rats as well as in the pair-fed untreated diabetic rats. The impaired suppression of hepatic glucose output by insulin, caused by diabetes, was totally reversed by d-fenfluramine, while pair-feeding did not modify hepatic insulin resistance. The whole body insulin-mediated glucose uptake in the diabetic rats was also significantly improved by d-fenfluramine treatment. Such an effect was also found in the pair-fed untreated group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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