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Clinical Trial
. 1987 Jul;36(7):677-82.
doi: 10.1016/0026-0495(87)90153-3.

Effect of porcine gastric inhibitory polypeptide on beta-cell function in type I and type II diabetes mellitus

Clinical Trial

Effect of porcine gastric inhibitory polypeptide on beta-cell function in type I and type II diabetes mellitus

T Krarup et al. Metabolism. 1987 Jul.

Abstract

The effect of highly purified natural porcine GIP on C-peptide release was examined in six type I (insulin-dependent) diabetics (IDD) with residual beta-cell function, six type II non-insulin-dependent) diabetics (NIDD), and six normal subjects. All subjects were normal weight. From -120 minutes to 180 minutes glucose or insulin was infused IV to achieve a constant plasma glucose level of 8 mmol/L. On two separate days GIP (2 pmol/kg/min) or isotonic NaCl at random were infused from 0 to 30 minutes. After 10 minutes of GIP infusion plasma IR-GIP concentrations were in the physiologic postprandial range. At 30 minutes a further increase in IR-GIP to supraphysiologic levels occurred. In all subjects plasma, C-peptide increased more after 10 minutes of GIP infusion (IDD, 0.48 +/- 0.05; NIDD, 0.79 +/- 0.11; normal subjects, 2.27 +/- 0.29 nmol/L) than on the corresponding day with NaCl infusion (IDD, 0.35 +/- 0.03; NIDD, 0.62 +/- 0.08; normal subjects, 1.22 +/- 0.13 nmol/L, P less than .05 for all). The responses of the diabetics were significantly lower than that of the normal subjects (P less than .001 for both groups). No further increase in C-peptide occurred during the remaining 20 minutes of the GIP infusion in the diabetic subjects (IDD, 0.49 +/- 0.05; NIDD, 0.83 +/- 0.10 nmol/L). In the presence of a plasma glucose concentration of 8 mmol/L, physiologic concentrations of porcine GIP caused an immediate but impaired beta-cell response in IDD and NIDD patients.

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