Glucose uptake and glucose transporter proteins in skeletal muscle from undernourished rats
Undernutrition in rats impairs secretion of insulin but maintains glucose normotolerance, because muscle tissue presents an increased insulin-induced glucose uptake. We studied glucose transporters in gastrocnemius muscles from food-restricted and control anesthetized rats under basal and euglycemic hyperinsulinemic conditions. Muscle membranes were prepared by subcellular fractionation in sucrose gradients. Insulin-induced glucose uptake, estimated by a 2-deoxyglucose technique, was increased 4- and 12-fold in control and food-restricted rats, respectively. Muscle insulin receptor was increased, but phosphotyrosine-associated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity stimulated by insulin was lower in undernourished rats, whereas insulin receptor substrate-1 content remained unaltered. The main glucose transporter in the muscle, GLUT-4, was severely reduced albeit more efficiently translocated in response to insulin in food-deprived rats. GLUT-1, GLUT-3, and GLUT-5, minor isoforms in skeletal muscle, were found increased in food-deprived rats. The rise in these minor glucose carriers, as well as the improvement in GLUT-4 recruitment, is probably insufficient to account for the insulin-induced increase in the uptake of glucose in undernourished rats, thereby suggesting possible changes in other steps required for glucose metabolism.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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American Physiological Society
2001
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| Subjects: | Undernutrition, Insulin signaling, Muscle glucose transporters, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/190145 |
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