Affiliation:
1. Pacific Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
2. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Abstract
Chronic elevations in plasma levels of fatty acids (FAs) adversely affect pancreatic β-cell function in type 2 diabetes. In vitro, we have previously shown that deleterious effects of prolonged exposure of isolated islets to FAs were dependent on the presence of elevated glucose concentration. This led us to hypothesize that both hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia must be present simultaneously for FAs to affect β-cell function. To test this hypothesis in vivo, we administered a high-fat diet for 6 weeks to Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. High-fat feeding had no effect on insulin secretion, insulin content, or insulin mRNA levels in islets from normoglycemic Wistar rats. In contrast, high-fat feeding markedly impaired glucose-induced insulin secretion in islets from GK rats. High-fat feeding did not affect triglyceride (TG) content or the rate of glucose oxidation in islets. It was, however, accompanied by a twofold increase in uncoupling protein (UCP)-2 levels in GK rat islets. Insulin treatment completely normalized glucose-induced insulin secretion and prevented the increase in UCP-2 expression in islets from high-fat-fed GK rats. We conclude that hyperlipidemia induced by high-fat feeding affects insulin secretion in islets from hyperglycemic GK rats only, by a mechanism which may involve, at least in part, modulation of UCP-2 expression.
Publisher
American Diabetes Association
Subject
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Internal Medicine
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