PMID: 6112181Jun 1, 1981Paper

Altered ability of the liver to produce glucose following a period of glucagon deficiency

Diabetes
J J DeriA D Cherrington

Abstract

It is known that the effectiveness of a physiologic increment in glucagon to stimulate glucose production wanes with time even when counterregulatory insulin secretion is prevented. The aim of the present study was to establish whether the converse is true: does glucagon become a more effective stimulus of glucose production following a period of acute hypoglucagonemia? To determine this, somatostatin was infused along with basal replacement amounts of glucagon (0.65 ng/mg x min) and insulin (228 microU/kg x min) into five postabsorptive conscious dogs. After 1.5 h of basal hormone replacement, the glucagon infusion was terminated and a selective fall in the plasma glucagon level (75 +/- 6 to 30 +/- 4 pg/ml) occurred. This resulted in a drop in tracer (3H-glucose)-determined glucose production from 3.0 +/- 0.4 to 1.5 +/- 0.3 mg/kg x min. The plasma insulin level remained unchanged at 10 +/- 1 microU/ml throughout the experiment. Euglycemia (110 +/- 4 mg/dl) was maintained by exogenous glucose infusion. After 3 h of glucagon lack, restoration of the glucagon infusion returned the IRG level to control values (78 +/- 6 pg/ml) but restored glucose output only partially (42 +/- 9%), necessitating continued glucose infusion to preser...Continue Reading

Citations

Jul 15, 2015·American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism·Ling HinshawAnanda Basu
Apr 1, 1992·The American Journal of Physiology·D C Bradley, R N Bergman

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