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Salivary Peptide P-C Potentiates Insulin Release and Inhibits Glucagon Release from Isolated Perfused Pancreas of the Diabetic GK Rat
Author(s) -
Noboru Nakashima,
Ikuko Kimura,
Masayasu Kimura
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
japanese journal of pharmacology/japanese journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1347-3506
pISSN - 0021-5198
DOI - 10.1254/jjp.67.15
Subject(s) - medicine , endocrinology , arginine , glucagon , insulin , pancreas , chemistry , diabetes mellitus , amino acid , biochemistry
We investigated the effects of the salivary peptide P-C (P-C), a saliva-derived peptide, on glucose (8.3 mM)- and arginine (10 mM)-induced insulin release and arginine (10 mM)-induced glucagon release using the perfused pancreas of spontaneously diabetic GK rats. Both its potentiating effect on insulin release and its inhibitory effect on glucagon release were concentration-dependent in diabetic GK rats. The ratio of insulin release obtained with P-C (194 nM) to that without P-C in GK rats was the same as ratio in normal Wistar rats. The ratio (0.40) of glucagon release obtained with P-C (194 nM) to that without P-C was smaller in diabetic GK rats than that (0.75) in normal Wistar rats. These results indicate that P-C inhibits arginine-induced glucagon release in diabetic GK rat pancreas more effectively than in normal Wistar rat pancreas.

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