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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Elizabeth McIntyre, Dr Reza Halse, Emeritus Professor Steve Yeaman, Professor Mark Walker
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Impaired insulin action is a characteristic feature of type 2 diabetes. The study aims were to investigate whether after prolonged culture skeletal muscle cultures from insulin-resistant, type 2 diabetic patients (taking >100 U insulin/d) displayed impaired insulin signaling effects compared with cultures from nondiabetic controls and to determine whether retained abnormalities were limited to insulin action by studying an alternative pathway of stimulated glucose uptake. Studies were performed on myotubes differentiated for 7 d between passages 4 and 6. Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake (100 nM; P < 0.05) and insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis (1 nM; P < 0.01) were significantly impaired in the diabetic vs. control cultures. Protein kinase B (PKB) expression and phosphorylated PKB levels in response to insulin stimulation (20 DM) were comparable in the diabetic and control cultures. 5-Amino-4-imidazolecarboxamide riboside (AICAR) mimics the effect of exercise on glucose uptake by activating AMP-activated protein kinase. There was no difference in AICAR (2 mM)-stimulated glucose uptake between diabetic vs. control myotube cultures (P = not significant). In conclusion, diabetic muscle cultures retain signaling defects after prolonged culture that appear specific to the insulin signaling pathway, but not involving PKB. This supports an intrinsic abnormality of the diabetic muscle cells that is most likely to have a genetic basis.
Author(s): McIntyre EA, Halse R, Yeaman SJ, Walker M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Year: 2004
Volume: 89
Issue: 7
Pages: 3440-3448
ISSN (print): 0021-972X
ISSN (electronic): 1945-7197
Publisher: The Endocrine Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2003-031919
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-031919
PubMed id: 15240629
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