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Expression of insulin regulatable glucose transporters in skeletal muscle from Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients

Expression of insulin regulatable glucose transporters in skeletal muscle from Type 2... 125 33 33 10 10 A. Handberg A. Vaag P. Damsbo H. Beck-Nielsen J. Vinten Institute of Medical Physiology B, Panum Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Hvidøre Hospital, Diabetes Hospital Klampenborg Denmark Department of Endocrinology University Hospital of Odense Odense Denmark Summary A prominent feature of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is the inability of insulin to appropiately increase the transport of glucose into target tissue. In adipocytes from individuals with Type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance has been shown to be associated with a depletion of glucose transporters. Similarly, streptozotocin induced diabetes causes a diminished expression of the insulin regulatable glucose transporter in rat adipocytes. The expression of this glucose transporter isoform has not yet been investigated in muscle tissue from patients with Type 2 diabetes. We have measured the content of the insulin regulatable glucose transporter in a vesicular fraction isolated from muscle biopsies from fasting individuals with Type 2 diabetes and control subjects, and we found that the number of the insulin regulatable glucose transporters expressed in skeletal muscle was unaffected by Type 2 diabetes (0.208 vs 0.205, arbitrary units, p >0.5, control subjects and diabetic patients). Thus, the decreased glucose disposal in Type 2 diabetes is not associated with a diminished number of insulin regulatable glucose transporters. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Diabetologia Springer Journals

Expression of insulin regulatable glucose transporters in skeletal muscle from Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1990 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Human Physiology; Internal Medicine; Metabolic Diseases
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0012-186X
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1432-0428
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10.1007/BF00400207
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125 33 33 10 10 A. Handberg A. Vaag P. Damsbo H. Beck-Nielsen J. Vinten Institute of Medical Physiology B, Panum Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Hvidøre Hospital, Diabetes Hospital Klampenborg Denmark Department of Endocrinology University Hospital of Odense Odense Denmark Summary A prominent feature of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is the inability of insulin to appropiately increase the transport of glucose into target tissue. In adipocytes from individuals with Type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance has been shown to be associated with a depletion of glucose transporters. Similarly, streptozotocin induced diabetes causes a diminished expression of the insulin regulatable glucose transporter in rat adipocytes. The expression of this glucose transporter isoform has not yet been investigated in muscle tissue from patients with Type 2 diabetes. We have measured the content of the insulin regulatable glucose transporter in a vesicular fraction isolated from muscle biopsies from fasting individuals with Type 2 diabetes and control subjects, and we found that the number of the insulin regulatable glucose transporters expressed in skeletal muscle was unaffected by Type 2 diabetes (0.208 vs 0.205, arbitrary units, p >0.5, control subjects and diabetic patients). Thus, the decreased glucose disposal in Type 2 diabetes is not associated with a diminished number of insulin regulatable glucose transporters.

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Diabetologia – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 1, 1990

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