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1Department of Medical Physiology, Institute of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway; and 2Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Submitted 7 October 2005 ; accepted in final form 25 November 2005
Diabetic (db/db) mice provide an animal model of Type 2 diabetes characterized by marked in vivo insulin resistance. The effect of insulin on myocardial metabolism has not been fully elucidated in this diabetic model. In the present study we tested the hypothesis that the metabolic response to insulin in db/db hearts will be diminished due to cardiac insulin resistance. Insulin-induced changes in glucose oxidation (GLUox) and fatty acid (FA) oxidation (FAox) were measured in isolated hearts from control and diabetic mice, perfused with both low as well as high concentration of glucose and FA: 10 mM glucose/0.5 mM palmitate and 28 mM glucose/1.1 mM palmitate. Both in the absence and presence of insulin, diabetic hearts showed decreased rates of GLUox and elevated rates of FAox. However, the insulin-induced increment in GLUox, as well as the insulin-induced decrement in FAox, was similar or even more pronounced in diabetic that in control hearts. During elevated FA and glucose supply, however, the effect of insulin was blunted in db/db hearts with respect to both FAox and GLUox. Finally, insulin-stimulated deoxyglucose uptake was markedly reduced in isolated cardiomyocytes from db/db mice, whereas glucose uptake in isolated perfused db/db hearts was clearly responsive to insulin. These results show that, despite reduced insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in isolated cardiomyocytes, isolated perfused db/db hearts are responsive to metabolic actions of insulin. These results should advocate the use of insulin therapy (glucose-insulin-potassium) in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery or during reperfusion after an ischemic insult.
myocardial metabolism; insulin action; glucose and fatty acid metabolism
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