Insular modifications in glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in diabetes

Malaisse, W.J.; Rasschaert, J.

Bulletin et Memoires de l'Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique 146(1-2) 106-110; Discussion: 111-112

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 0377-8231
PMID: 1933065
Document Number: 385800
In the model of non-insulin-dependent diabetes found in adult rats injected with streptozotocin during the neonatal period, the activity of the mitochondrial glycerophosphate dehydrogenase is severely reduced in pancreatic islets. This coincides with a decreased contribution of aerobic to total glycolysis in intact islets and could account for the preferential impairment of the insulin secretory response to glucose.

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