Acute Insulin Responses to Intravenous Glucose and GLP-1 are Independent of Preceding High-frequency Insulin Pulse-defects Induced by Glucose Entrainment in Healthy Humans

Abstract

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that high-frequency oscillations in insulin release is a part of the mechanistic basis of a prompt and adequate insulin response to iv-glucose and GLP-1 exposure. In ten healthy subjects, five different insulin release patterns were induced for 360 min using computer-based glucose infusion (glucose delivered in a constant, a regular pulsatile, an irregular pulse frequency, an irregular pulse amplitude or a regular but very fast-pulsatile manner) in healthy subjects. The amount of glucose infused was identical in all five protocols (24 mg/kg/h). After 360 min, insulin secretion was assessed by means of a first-phase insulin secretion test (25 g glucose) and injection of GLP-1 (9 μg). By frequent blood sampling and analysis of insulin concentration, glucose-induced entrainment was evident in all protocols except in the constant infusion and the very fast-pulse protocol. The first-phase insulin release to glucose and GLP-1-induced insulin release were, however, comparable in the protocols. We therefore conclude from this short-term experimental setting in healthy subjects that beta-cell response to either iv-glucose or GLP-1 is independent of the preceding regularity of oscillations in insulin release.

Insulin secretion - Entrainment - Pulsatility - Human

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