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Specific and total activities of lactase, sucrase and maltase were determined in the mucosa scraped from the proximal, mid and distal intestinal segments of nonpregnant and pregnant normal control and diabetic rats. In control rats, pregnancy was accompanied by a significant rise in total lactase activity of the entire intestinal mucosa. This was due to increased specific activity of the enzyme in the mid segment of the pregnant rats. In both nonpregnant and pregnant rats, diabetes was associated with marked enhancement of intestinal growth and with elevated specific and total activities of the three mucosal disaccharidases. In the pregnant diabetic rats, specific and total activities of the disaccharidases were about 30% lower than corresponding values in the nonpregnant diabetic rats.
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PMID:Intestinal disaccharidases in the rat: effects of pregnancy and diabetes. 13 Apr 71

Vascular disease in diabetics could arise in part from altered vessel wall catebolism. Specific activities of hydrolases in aortic smooth muscle cells from rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes were measured. Enyzmes included: neutral alpha-glucosidase, alpha-mannosidase, and lysosomal N-acetyl beta-glucosaminidase, beta-galactosidase, cathepsin C, acid alpha-glucosidase, and acid cholesteryl esterase. After 4,8, and 11 weeks of diabetes, activities of all enzymes studied were decreased significantly in diabetic vessels, decreases ranging from 15% for cathepsin C to 62% for alpha-mannosidase. After 3 weeks of diabetes, insulin treatment for 1 week restored enzyme levels to normal. After 7 weeks of diabetes, 1 week of insulin treatment did not restore enzyme levels fully to normal (acid cholesteryl esterase was unchanged); 4 weeks of insulin did. Acid phosphatase and N-acetyl beta-glucosaminidase activities were reduced markedly in histochemical studies of diabetic aortas at all time periods and were restored by insulin treatment. Alloxan-induced diabetes gave results similar to those with streptozotocin. Significant decreases of aortic hydrolase activities, including those of lysosomes, occur in experimental diabetes mellitus and could contribute to accumulation of substrates in vascular smooth muscle cells.
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PMID:Hydrolase activities in the rat aorta. I. Effects of diabetes mellitus and insulin treatment. 14 80

The activity of five glycohydrolases was measured in the plasma of Chinese hamsters from eight highly inbred lines in the Upjohn colony. The diabetic animals showed elevated activities of plasma beta-D-galactosidase, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase and N-acetyl-beta-D-galactosaminidase but similar activities of plasma alpha-D-glucosidase and alpha-D-galactosidase to the nondiabetic animals. Line-specific variation was observed in all five enzymes and anomalies were especially evident in N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase and N-acetyl-beta-D-galactosaminidase activity. In two diabetic lines, AC and Z, activities of these two enzymes were not elevated although significant correlation was found with blood sugar levels. The pronounced difference in the plasma activity of N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase in two diabetic lines, XA and AC, did not involve plasma inhibitors or activators, as evidenced by the coincidence in observed and calculated activities in mixed plasma samples, or specific isozymes, concluded from the similar elution profiles on ion-exchange column and thermostability curves. These data suggest that diabetes-related changes in plasma glycohydrolase activities are dictated by genetic factors and may be involved in the development of complications.
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PMID:Acid glycohydrolase in Chinese hamster with spontaneous diabetes. IV. Diabetes- and line-dependent variation in plasma enzyme activity. 21 99

1. Six weeks after the injection of streptozotocin at 125 mg/kg i.p. in the AV line nondiabetic Chinese hamsters, the animals showed hyperglycemia, increased kidney, pancreas and stomach weights and stomach glucagon contents and depletion of insulin and glucagon in the pancreas. 2. Plasma beta-D-galactosidase and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase were elevated; whereas alpha-D-glucosidase was decreased and alpha-D-galactosidase remained unchanged in the plasma. 3. In the kidney, streptozotocin-diabetes led to depression of alpha-D-mannosidase, beta-D-fucosidase and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase activities in both 12,000 g supernatant and precipitate fractions, decreases in alpha-D-glucosidase in the supernatant only and no change in alpha-L-fucosidase, alpha-D-galactosidase, beta-D-galactosidase and beta-D-glucuronidase. 4. In the liver, significant increases in N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, alpha-D-galactosidase, beta-D-galactosidase, beta-D-fucosidase, beta-D-glucosidase and alpha-D-mannosidase were found in either the supernatant or the precipitate fraction of the diabetic animals. The data indicate diabetes-dependent tissue-specific changes in glycohydrolases in the Chinese hamster.
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PMID:Alterations in glycohydrolase activities in streptozotocin-diabetic Chinese hamsters (Cricetulus griseus). 31 16

The effect of a new complex oligosaccharide (Bay g 5421) of microbial origin on human intestinal alpha-glucosidehydrolase activity was tested in mucosal homogenate from human small bowel biopsy specimens. The alpha-glucosidehydrolase inhibitor (alpha-GHI) exerted a potent inhibitory effect on glucoamylase, sucrase, and maltase, was minimally effective on isomaltase, and did not affect trehalase and lactase activity. Kinetic analysis revealed a fully competitive type of inhibition with a Ki of 1.3 x 10(-6) M; thus the inhibitor had a 15,000-fold higher affinity to the enzyme sucrase than its natural substrate sucrose. The new compound may prove to be useful in the study of carbohydrate maldigestion and malabsorption and may possibly be of therapeutic benefit in diabetes and obesity.
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PMID:Inhibition of human intestinal alpha-glucosidehydrolases by a new complex oligosaccharide. 44 22

Streptozotocin treatment (125 mg/kg) in the Chinese hamster induced hyperglycaemia, hypoinsulinaemia, hyperglucagonaemia and changes in body, liver, pancreas, stomach, kidney and adipose tissue weights. The pancreatic reserves of insulin and glucagon in the diabetic animals were low, but stomach glucagon high. These animals showed high levels of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and low levels of glucokinase, hexokinase, isocitrate dehydrogenase and malic enzyme, but normal levels of pyruvate kinase in the liver. Increases in lactate dehydrogenase subunit B and isozymes 2, 3 and 4 were also observed in the liver, but not in the epididymal fat pad, of the diabetic animals. N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase was elevated in plasma, liver and heart, but not in the kidney of the treated animals. Renal alpha-galactosidase and beta-glucosidase were depressed, whereas beta-galactosidase and alpha-glucosidase remained essentially normal. These features indicated that there were considerable differences between the biochemical disorders associated with streptozotocin-diabetes in the Chinese hamster and the published observations in the rat.
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PMID:Streptozotocin-induced diabetes in the Chinese hamster. Biochemical and endocrine disorders. 59 Jun 51

Hypertension is an important risk factor for atherosclerosis and often occurs in association with diabetes mellitus. Specific activities of hydrolases in homogenates of aortas from rats with renal-clip hypertension, normotension following a period of hypertension, and hypertension combined with streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus were measured. Enzymes included: neutral alpha-glucosidase, and lysosomal N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, beta-galactosidase, cathepsin C, acid alpha-glucosidase, and acid cholesteryl esterase. After 6 or 12 weeks of hypertension, specific activities of all enzymes measured were significantly increased, levels ranging from 24% above normal for cathepsin C to 351% above normal for N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase. Six weeks of normotension following 6 weeks of hypertension resulted in restoration to normal of four of the six enzyme activities; the remaining two enzymes were significantly below normal levels. Combined hypertension and diabetes mellitus showed smooth muscle cell levels of four of the five hydrolases measured to be significantly lower than those present with hypertension alone. In every instance, histochemical studies of aortas showed acid phosphatase and N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase activities which corresponded to the biochemical findings. These findings indicate profound and discrete effects of two clinical risk factors on vascular smooth muscle cell lysosomes.
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PMID:Hydrolase activities in the rat aorta. II. Effects of hypertension alone and in combination with diabetes mellitus. 65 43

It was taken 32 male Wistar rats, weighting between 130 g and 150 g, free feeding, to study the total and specific activities of lactase, invertase and maltase of small intestine of rats. The animals were divided by chance in 3 experimental and 1 control group. 1. group--Aloxanic diabetes rats: treated with 1 unit of NPH insulin every day: after the 4th day of aloxane administration, all rats were killed. 2. group--Aloxanic diabetes rats--treated for 5 days with 1 unit of NPH insulin every day; after the 5th day until the 7th they were treated with 4 units of NPH insulin and were also killed. 3. group--Hyperinsulinism rats--Normal rats were treated for 4 days with 4 units of NPH insulin every day. After the 5th day they were killed. 4. group--Control group--Normal rats, free feeding. They were observed during 4 days and were also killed. The results showed that none difference was observed in the 4 groups of rats about the total and specific activities of lactase, invertase and maltase of the small intestine. In this study, all the animals with aloxanic diabetes were treated with insulin. Then, it is possible that the insulin inhibited the stimulator effect of the diabetes upon the dissacaridases of the small intestine of the rats.
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PMID:[Insulin and disaccharidases levels of the small intestine of the rat (author's transl)]. 74 51

Chronic application (20 days) of glucagon in pharmacological doses induces mucosal transformation of the hyperregenerative type in the small intestine of the rat. This transformation is characterized by decreased villi, and increased crypt length. The morphological changes are accompanied by a reduction in glucose absorption in vivo as well as by decreased activities of lactase, sucrase and maltase. The findings demonstrate that hyperglucagonemia is not the cause for hyperplastic mucosal transformation, which is found in the experimental diabetes in the rat.
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PMID:[Functional and morphological studies on intestinal mucosa of the rat under chronic glucagon application (author's transl)]. 88 15

Endogeneous hyperglucagonemia is observed in experimental diabetes mellitus and semistarvation, conditions associated with an increased intestinal absorptive function. To examine whether glucagon might exert a similar adaptive response on intestinal digestive-absorptive function like experimental diabetes mellitus the effect of chronic glucagon administration on intestinal transport of 3-0-methyl-D-glucose, water, sodium, potassium, and D-glucose induced transmural potential difference (PD) was examined by an in vivo perfusion technique in rat small intestine. Chronic administration of glucagon (100 mug twice daily) for 5 days resulted in increased absorption of 3-0-methyl-D-glucose, water, sodium and potassium as well as in an increase of D-glucose induced PD. A similar, but more pronounced augmentation of D-glucose induced PD was observed in the jejunum of streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Disaccharidase (maltase, sucrase, trehalase, lactase) and alkaline phosphatase activities were not affected in intestinal mucosa of glucagon-treated rats compared to controls. It cannot be decided from these results whether hyperglucagonemia is responsible for the adaptive intestinal changes observed in experimental diabetes mellitus.
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PMID:Effect of chronic glucagon-administration on the digestive and absorptive function of rat small intestine in vivo. 98 1


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