The pathophysiology of diabetes involves a defective amplification of the late-phase insulin response to glucose by glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide-regardless of etiology and phenotype

Tina Vilsbøll, F K Knop, T Krarup, A Johansen, S Madsbad, S Larsen, T Hansen, O Pedersen, Jens Møller Holst, A Johansen

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Abstract

The effect of the insulinotropic incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), is preserved in typical middle-aged, obese, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetic patients, whereas a defective amplification of the so-called late-phase plasma insulin response (20-120 min) to glucose by the other incretin hormone, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), is seen in these patients. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate plasma insulin and C-peptide responses to GLP-1 and GIP in five groups of diabetic patients with etiology and phenotype distinct from the obese type 2 diabetic patients. We studied (six in each group): 1) patients with diabetes mellitus secondary to chronic pancreatitis; 2) lean type 2 diabetic patients (body mass index <25 kg/m(2)); 3) patients with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults; 4) diabetic patients with mutations in the HNF-1alpha gene [maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY)3]; and 5) newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic patients. All participants underwent three hyperglycemic clamps (2 h, 15 mM) with continuous infusion of saline, 1 pmol GLP-1 (7-36)amide/kg body weight.min or 4 pmol GIP pmol/kg body weight.min. The early-phase (0-20 min) plasma insulin response tended to be enhanced by both GIP and GLP-1, compared with glucose alone, in all five groups. In contrast, the late-phase (20-120 min) plasma insulin response to GIP was attenuated, compared with the plasma insulin response to GLP-1, in all five groups. Significantly higher glucose infusion rates were required during the late phase of the GLP-1 stimulation, compared with the GIP stimulation. In conclusion, lack of GIP amplification of the late-phase plasma insulin response to glucose seems to be a consequence of diabetes mellitus, characterizing most, if not all, forms of diabetes.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Vol/bind88
Udgave nummer10
Sider (fra-til)4897-903
Antal sider7
ISSN0021-972X
StatusUdgivet - 1 okt. 2003

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