PMID: 7018962Jul 1, 1981Paper

Glucose and acetylcholine have different effects on the plateau pacemaker of pancreatic islet cells

Diabetes
D L CookD Porte

Abstract

Pancreatic islet cell membrane electrical activity has been studied with intracellular microelectrodes in perifused, isolated mouse islets of Langerhans. The dose-response effects of glucose and of acetylcholine on the pattern of electrical activity are compared and are shown to be qualitatively different. Electrical activity in the presence of glucose consists of periodic alterations between a polarized silent phase potential and depolarized plateau phase with superimposed rapid spiking activity. Increasing glucose concentration prolongs the plateau phase, at the expense of the silent phase, and thus increases the the plateau fraction (the fraction of time in each electrical cycle spent in the plateau phase). By contrast, graded doses of acetylcholine, in the presence of stimulatory levels of glucose, had no effect on plateau fraction. Increasing glucose concentration also slightly reduced the frequency of plateaus, whereas increasing acetylcholine markedly increased plateau frequency. Furthermore, changes of glucose concentration had no effect on the potential levels during the plateau and silent phases, while addition of acetylcholine depolarized the silent phase until, at high concentrations of acetylcholine, the combinatio...Continue Reading

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