Effect of starvation upon insulin secretion in the rabbit
Autor: | J. Gómez-Acebo, Enrique Blázquez, Clemente Lopez-Quijada |
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Rok vydání: | 1969 |
Předmět: |
Blood Glucose
medicine.medical_specialty Biopsy Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism medicine.medical_treatment Blood sugar Biology Endocrinology Iodine Isotopes Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus Insulin Secretion Methods Internal Medicine medicine Animals Insulin Insulin secretion Pancreas Immunoassay Starvation Staining and Labeling medicine.diagnostic_test General Medicine medicine.disease Microscopy Electron medicine.anatomical_structure Blood chemistry Rabbits medicine.symptom |
Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
ISSN: | 1432-5233 0940-5429 |
Popis: | Plasma insulin and blood glucose levels of normal and fasting rabbits have been studied. The mean plasma insulin of pre-starvation controls was 24 µU/ml; blood glucose was 107 mg/100 ml. After starvation, the insulin levels in the blood decreased to 8 µU/ml and glucose concentration to a mean level of 76 mg/100 ml. The fine structure of β- and α-cells was studied in fasted animals. Most of the β-cells were filled with granules of the pale type and some of these secretory granules were adjacent to the plasmatic membrane, which frequently showed projecting microvilli. Immunoassay figures for pancreatic insulin were obtained. There was a good correlation between the insulin assay results in pancreas on one hand, and light and electron microscopic β-cells on the other, provided the assumption is true that pale granules contain immunologically active insulin. Most of the α-cells were well granulated, but a few of these cells showed a marked increase in the lamellar ergastoplasm. |
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