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The ability of insulin to increase both [14C]-glucose incorporation into fatty acids and pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in incubated rat epididymal adipose tissues was considerably lessened after adrenalectomy. Insulin antagonism of adrenaline-stimulated lipolysis in isolated fat cells was abolished after adrenalectomy. Percentage stimulation of lipolysis above basal by adrenaline was not appreciably altered by adrenalectomy.
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PMID:Decreased sensitivity to insulin in white adipose tissue from adrenalectomised rats. 59 Sep 21

Sand rats, captured in Egypt and fed with a low caloric vegetable diet during adaptation, were investigated before and after 2.5 and 8 weeks diet treatment (30 and 40 kcal/100 g body weight daily). In hexobarbital anaesthesia the sand rats were loaded with 1 g glucose/kg body weight in a single dose intravenously. After a rapid increase the content of glucose in blood remained at a level of about 600 mg glucose/100 ml blood. The insulin immunoreactivity in blood did not change uniformly after application of glucose and remained in a physiologic range. In the islets of Langerhans a degranulation was found during diet treatment. The sensitivity of the epididymal adipose tissue towards insulin in vitro decreased to a nearly complete resistance in the course of diet treatment. A diminution of insulin sensitivity was also found in the m. soleus in vitro. The content of glucose-6-phosphate in the m. semimembranosus was found enhanced after the preparation of the animal. It was found progressively increased up to the five-fold at the end of diet treatment. In the corresponding muscle the glucose distribution volume was increased to about double the extracellular volume. An accumulation of free glucose within the muscle cell must be taken into account. In conclusion the treatment of sand rats with a diabetogenic diet results very quickly in a loss of insulin sensitivity of adipose tissue. The progressively increased stress-mediated accumulation of glucose-6-phosphate and free glucose refers to an inhibition of glucose utilization in the phosphorylation step of glucose in skeletal muscle.
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PMID:Variations of glucose utilization in muscle and adipose tissue of sand rats (Psammomys obesus) during adaptation to laboratory holding. 60 59

Insulin was modified with d-biotin-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester in dimethylformamide. Mono-, di-, and triacylated insulins were separated by preparative isoelectric focusing. Monoacylated derivatives (isoelectric point 5.1) were fractionated twice on DEAE-cellulose to yield pure N epsilonB29-biotinylinsulin. The structure of the product was established by amino acid analysis before and after deamination. N epsilonB29-biotinylinsulin had biological activity indistinguishable from insulin on glucose oxidation and lipid synthesis assays using isolated rat epididymal fat cells. Complexes of N epsilonB29-biotinylinsulin with avidin, having essentially all but one binding site filled with biotin, were prepared in order to obtain a 1:1 insulin:avidin ration. The elicited identical maximal biological responses, but showed a potency decreased to 5% of that of insulin. Such complexes conjugated with ferritin will provide a useful tool in the development of electron microscopic stains of insulin receptors.
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PMID:N epsilonB29-(+)-biotinylinsulin and its complexes with avidin. Synthesis and biological activity. 62 Nov 98

Male rats were submitted for 3 wk either to portacaval shunt or to portacaval transposition. In both cases, sham-operated pair-fed rats served as controls. After an overnight fast, insulinemia was similar in all groups, but glucagonemia was significantly higher (by 65%) and serum glucose significantly lower (by 35%) in rats with a portacaval shunt. The lipid metabolism of epididymal adipose tissue was studied in vitro, as well as in vivo. In rats with a portacaval shunt, in vitro lipogenesis from [U-14C]glucose, [1-14C]acetate, or 3H2o was 60-80% lower than in sham-operated pair-fed controls. Twice as much in vitro basal lipolysis could be determined. In addition, in vivo lipogenesis from 3H2O was markedly decreased (6 times). By contrast, in rats with portacaval transposition, in vitro lipogenesis was higher (by 80-140%) and basal lipolysis lower (by 63%) than in pair-fed controls. Thus, even when the nutritional state was taken into consideration, the type of portal diversion was the determining factor in influencing lipid metabolism in epididymal adipose tissue.
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PMID:Effects of portacaval diversion on lipid metabolism in rat adipose tissue. 66 71

The lipoprotein lipase (clearing-factor lipase) activity of the white adipose tissue from rats aged between 1 and 145 days was determined. Five adipose-tissue sites (epididymal, uterine, subcutaneous, perirenal and intramuscular) together with serum concentrations of triacylglycerol, cholesterol and glucose were studied. The pattern of enzyme-activity change was remarkably similar in all the sites studied, although the growth of the tissues proceeded non-uniformly. After a peak of activity early in suckling, lipoprotein lipase activity fell to low values by 20 days of age. At weaning (21 days) the activity increased sharply and within 5 days high values were regained. The serum triacylglycerol and cholesterol concentrations were low at birth and reached peaks of concentration coincidentally with the minima of white-adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase activities, seen late in suckling. The changes in enzyme activity were related to other metabolic changes in adipose tissue and with the known changes in plasma insulin concentrations occurring during development.
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PMID:Changes in the lipoprotein lipase (clearing-factor lipase) activity of white adipose tissue during development of the rat. 66 49

Fertilization of rat eggs in vitro could not be achieved when epididymal spermatozoa were preincubated and eggs in clots incubated in a chemically defined medium without D-glucose. Very high proportions (84-100%) of eggs examined were undergoing fertilization when 2.78-8.34 mM-D-glucose were included in the medium. The substitution of D-fructose or D-galactose for D-glucose resulted in very poor penetration rates (0-4%), but D-mannose was effective for fertilization (59-99% penetration). Incubations for sperm capacitation and egg fertilization in different media containing the various hexoses showed that rat epididymal spermatozoa could be partly capacitated without hexose, that D-glucose, D-mannose or D-galactose but not D-fructose is effective for sperm capacitation and that only D-glucose and D-mannose supported penetration of eggs in vitro.
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PMID:Effect of various hexoses on sperm capacitation and penetration of rat eggs in vitro. 69 Sep 72

Marked variations in the 3beta-hydroxysterol content of hamster spermatozoa were observed as they progress through the epididymis. Cholesterol is the major sterol of caputal spermatozoa while the concentration of precursors of cholesterol was higher than that of cholesterol in caudal spermatozoa. One of these precursors has been identified as desmosterol. A second sterol has now been identified as 5alpha-cholestra-7,24-dien-3beta-ol by GLC-MS and by NMR. Its concentration is approximately 3-fold higher than that of cholesterol. This 3beta-hydroxysterol is also found in epididymal tissue.
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PMID:5alpha-Cholesta-7,24-dien-3beta-ol as a major sterol of the male hamster reproductive tract. 73 99

In Egyptian sand rats (Psammomys obesus) fed with native food and a low caloric vegetable diet after capture it was possible to study endocrinologic and metabolic changes of the early stages during the progression to diabetes. According to body weight gain and fasting blood glucose the animals were differentiated into two groups classified as basic and protodiabetic group, respectively. Isolated pancreatic islets as well as the perfused pancreases of sand rats responded to low concentrations of glucose with high insulin release during early stages of the development to diabetes. Changes in the insulin content of the islets could not be detected at this time although in the B-cells of the protodiabetic animals a degranulation was visible. During these early stages of the development to diabetes the in vitro insulin action on glucose utilization in soleus muscle and especially in epididymal fat pads as well as the basal glucose metabolism in adipose tissue were low. This strikingly reduced utilization of glucose by adipose and muscle tissues may be a factor which challenges the B-cell.
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PMID:Glucose-induced insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity of peripheric organs of Egyptian sand rats before manifestation of diabetes. 79 36

Seven enzymes of the Embden-Myerhof pathway of glycolysis were assayed in hypotonically treated epididymal sperm from mature rabbits. These were: fructose-biphosphate aldolase, triosephosphate isomerase, glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase, 3-phosphoglyceromutase, enolase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase. These enzymes were firmly enough bound to the cell structure to resist removal by washing after hypotonic treatment and had maximal activities comparable to, or greater than, the rate of mitochondrial pyruvate oxidation, so that rapid oxygen uptake was observed with intermediates of the glycolytic pathway. The activity of lactate dehydrogenase in a typical preparation of hypotonically treated cells was 5.3 mumoles/minute x 10(9) cells at 25 degrees C for pyruvate reduction in the hypotonically treated cells and 4.8 mumoles/minute x 10(9) cells in the thrice-washed hypotonically treated cells. The Km for pyruvate was 1.4 mM while that for lactate was 4.4 mM. By contrast, the maximal activity of pyruvate oxidation by mitochondria was 0.10 microgram atom of oxygen/minute x 10(9) cells, corresponding to 0.020 mumole of pyruvate/minute x 10(9) cells, and the Km for pyruvate was 5 microM. These enzyme parameters favor high lactate production from glucose in aerobic glycolysis.
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PMID:Energy metabolism of spermatozoa. V. The Embden-Myerhof pathway of glycolysis: activities of pathway enzymes in hypotonically treated rabbit epididymal spermatozoa. 80 42

ICI 66082, a cardioselective beta-adrenoceptor blocking agent, was found to produce hypoglycaemia in fasted rats. In fed rats a hyperglycaemic response was observed. The drug produced hypoglycaemia in fed adrenalectomised animals. The hypoglycaemic response to ICI 66082 was accompanied by elevations in plasma immunoreactive insulin (IRI) concentrations. The drug also reduced plasma glucose and increased IRI in moderately alloxan-diabetic rats. In severely diabetic animals The drug did not increase IRI concentrations and did not unequivocally lower plasma glucose concentrations. In vitro experiments showed ICI 66082 to increase glucose uptake by rat diaphragm muscle and epididymal adipose tissue. the hypoglycaemic response may be mediated by increases in plasms IRI concentrations with a possible contribution from direct effects of the drug on peripheral glucose utilization. As these responses differ from those published in relation to other beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs it is unlikely that the effects are due to beta-adrenoceptor blockade. However, like other beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs ICI 66082 reduced isoprenaline-mediated increase in plasma IRI.
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PMID:Effect of ICI 66082, a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug on blood glucose in the rat. 80 52


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