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- Title
Local lactate perfusion of the ventromedial hypothalamus suppresses hypoglycemic counterregulation.
- Authors
Borg, Monica A.; Tamborlane, William V.; Shulman, Gerald I.; Sherwin, Robert S.
- Abstract
We have previously reported that a glucosensor integrating hormonal responses to hypoglycemia is located in the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) and that local VMH glucose perfusion blocks counterregulatory hormone responses. To determine whether the by-product of glucose metabolism, lactate, can function within the VMH as an alternative for glucose, we delivered lactate locally to the VMH, during systemic hypoglycemia. For this purpose, we combined bilateral VMH microdialysis perfusion (metabolically active L-lactate or its nonmetabolizable D-isomer) with a euglycemic-hypoglycemic clamp in conscious chronically catheterized Sprague-Dawley rats. Local VMH perfusion with L-lactate decreased counterregulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia by 80-85% as compared with the nonmetabolizable D-lactate control. Moreover, hormonal suppression with L-lactate was accompanied by an approximate fourfold increase in the amount of exogenous glucose infused to maintain a stable hypoglycemic plateau (P < 0.05). In conclusion, the glucose-sensing mechanism in the VMH responds to lactate and, thus, is not specific for glucose. This implies that the VMH may act as a fuel sensor rather than as a glucose sensor.
- Subjects
HYPOGLYCEMIA; LACTATES; HYPOTHALAMUS; ADRENALINE; ANIMAL experimentation; BLOOD sugar; COMPARATIVE studies; DYNAMICS; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN; LACTIC acid; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; NORADRENALINE; PERFUSION; RATS; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Diabetes, 2003, Vol 52, Issue 3, p663
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/diabetes.52.3.663