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Introduction In recent decades, the notion of a central nervous system-mediated pathway for the physiology of glucagon has been garnering scientific attention. Full size image. Hypothalamic glucagon action in feeding vs glucose control Experiments conducted by Quiñones and colleagues demonstrated that central glucagon injection in rats led to significantly reduced feeding behaviour through the action of glucagon in the hypothalamus [ 15 ].
Dorsal vagal complex glucagon action in glucose control Following these novel findings of effects on peripheral glucose levels and energy balance mediated by glucagon action within the hypothalamus, it became important to question whether glucagon can also act in other sites of the brain to influence peripheral homeostasis.
Conclusion and future perspective In summary, the brain is increasingly being recognised as an important glucagon-sensitive organ.
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Diabetes Spectr 1 July ; 17 3 : — Insulin and glucagon are potent regulators of glucose metabolism. For decades, we have viewed diabetes from a bi-hormonal perspective of glucose regulation. This perspective is incomplete and inadequate in explaining some of the difficulties that patients and practitioners face when attempting to tightly control blood glucose concentrations.
Intensively managing diabetes with insulin is fraught with frustration and risk. Despite our best efforts,glucose fluctuations are unpredictable, and hypoglycemia and weight gain are common. These challenges may be a result of deficiencies or abnormalities in other glucoregulatory hormones.
New understanding of the roles of other pancreatic and incretin hormones has led to a multi-hormonal view of glucose homeostasis. Our understanding of diabetes as a metabolic disease has evolved significantly since the discovery of insulin in the s.
Insulin was identified as a potent hormonal regulator of both glucose appearance and disappearance in the circulation. Subsequently, diabetes was viewed as a mono-hormonal disorder characterized by absolute or relative insulin deficiency. Since its discovery, insulin has been the only available pharmacological treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes and a mainstay of therapy for patients with insulin-deficient type 2 diabetes.
The recent discovery of additional hormones with glucoregulatory actions has expanded our understanding of how a variety of different hormones contribute to glucose homeostasis.
In the s, glucagon was characterized as a major stimulus of hepatic glucose production. This discovery led to a better understanding of the interplay between insulin and glucagon, thus leading to a bi-hormonal definition of diabetes. Subsequently, the discovery of a secondβ-cell hormone, amylin, was first reported in Amylin was determined to have a role that complemented that of insulin, and, like insulin, was found to be deficient in people with diabetes.
This more recent development led to a view of glucose homeostasis involving multiple pancreatic hormones. In the mid s, several gut hormones were identified. One of these, an incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide-1 GLP-1 , was recognized as another important contributor to the maintenance of glucose homeostasis.
This enhanced understanding of glucose homeostasis will be central to the design of new pharmacological agents to promote better clinical outcomes and quality of life for people with diabetes.
This review will focus on the more recently discovered hormones involved in glucose homeostasis and is not intended to be a comprehensive review of diabetes therapies. Plasma glucose concentration is a function of the rate of glucose entering the circulation glucose appearance balanced by the rate of glucose removal from the circulation glucose disappearance.
Circulating glucose is derived from three sources: intestinal absorption during the fed state,glycogenolysis, and gluconeogenesis. The major determinant of how quickly glucose appears in the circulation during the fed state is the rate of gastric emptying. Other sources of circulating glucose are derived chiefly from hepatic processes: glycogenolysis, the breakdown of glycogen, the polymerized storage form of glucose; and gluconeogenesis, the formation of glucose primarily from lactate and amino acids during the fasting state.
Glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis are partly under the control of glucagon, a hormone produced in the α-cells of the pancreas. During the first 8—12 hours of fasting, glycogenolysis is the primary mechanism by which glucose is made available Figure 1A. Glucagon facilitates this process and thus promotes glucose appearance in the circulation.
Over longer periods of fasting, glucose,produced by gluconeogenesis, is released from the liver. Glucose homeostasis: roles of insulin and glucagon. For nondiabetic individuals in the fasting state, plasma glucose is derived from glycogenolysis under the direction of glucagon 1.
Basal levels of insulin control glucose disposal 2. Insulin's role in suppressing gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis is minimal due to low insulin secretion in the fasting state 3.
For nondiabetic individuals in the fed state, plasma glucose is derived from ingestion of nutrients 1. In the bi-hormonal model, glucagon secretion is suppressed through the action of endogenous insulin secretion 2.
This action is facilitated through the paracrine route communication within the islet cells 3. Additionally, in the fed state, insulin suppresses gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis in the liver 4 and promotes glucose disposal in the periphery 5.
For individuals with diabetes in the fasting state, plasma glucose is derived from glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis 1 under the direction of glucagon 2. Exogenous insulin 3 influences the rate of peripheral glucose disappearance 4 and, because of its deficiency in the portal circulation, does not properly regulate the degree to which hepatic gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis occur 5.
For individuals with diabetes in the fed state, exogenous insulin 1 is ineffective in suppressing glucagon secretion through the physiological paracrine route 2 , resulting in elevated hepatic glucose production 3.
As a result, the appearance of glucose in the circulation exceeds the rate of glucose disappearance 4. The net effect is postprandial hyperglycemia 5.
Glucoregulatory hormones include insulin, glucagon, amylin, GLP-1,glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide GIP , epinephrine, cortisol, and growth hormone. Of these, insulin and amylin are derived from theβ-cells, glucagon from the α-cells of the pancreas, and GLP-1 and GIP from the L-cells of the intestine.
The glucoregulatory hormones of the body are designed to maintain circulating glucose concentrations in a relatively narrow range. In the fasting state, glucose leaves the circulation at a constant rate.
To keep pace with glucose disappearance, endogenous glucose production is necessary. For all practical purposes, the sole source of endogenous glucose production is the liver. Renal gluconeogenesis contributes substantially to the systemic glucose pool only during periods of extreme starvation.
Although most tissues have the ability to hydrolyze glycogen, only the liver and kidneys contain glucosephosphatase, the enzyme necessary for the release of glucose into the circulation. In the bi-hormonal model of glucose homeostasis, insulin is the key regulatory hormone of glucose disappearance, and glucagon is a major regulator of glucose appearance.
After reaching a post-meal peak, blood glucose slowly decreases during the next several hours, eventually returning to fasting levels. In the immediate post-feeding state, glucose removal into skeletal muscle and adipose tissue is driven mainly by insulin.
At the same time, endogenous glucose production is suppressed by 1 the direct action of insulin, delivered via the portal vein, on the liver, and 2 the paracrine effect or direct communication within the pancreas between the α- andβ-cells, which results in glucagon suppression Figure 1B.
Until recently, insulin was the only pancreatic β-cell hormone known to lower blood glucose concentrations. Insulin, a small protein composed of two polypeptide chains containing 51 amino acids, is a key anabolic hormone that is secreted in response to increased blood glucose and amino acids following ingestion of a meal.
Like many hormones, insulin exerts its actions through binding to specific receptors present on many cells of the body,including fat, liver, and muscle cells.
The primary action of insulin is to stimulate glucose disappearance. Insulin helps control postprandial glucose in three ways. Initially,insulin signals the cells of insulin-sensitive peripheral tissues, primarily skeletal muscle, to increase their uptake of glucose.
Finally, insulin simultaneously inhibits glucagon secretion from pancreatic α-cells, thus signalling the liver to stop producing glucose via glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis Table 1. All of these actions reduce blood glucose.
Insulin action is carefully regulated in response to circulating glucose concentrations. Long-term release of insulin occurs if glucose concentrations remain high.
While glucose is the most potent stimulus of insulin, other factors stimulate insulin secretion. These additional stimuli include increased plasma concentrations of some amino acids, especially arginine, leucine, and lysine;GLP-1 and GIP released from the gut following a meal; and parasympathetic stimulation via the vagus nerve.
Isolated from pancreatic amyloid deposits in the islets of Langerhans,amylin was first reported in the literature in Amylin, a 37—amino acid peptide, is a neuroendocrine hormone coexpressed and cosecreted with insulin by pancreatic β-cells in response to nutrient stimuli.
Studies in humans have demonstrated that the secretory and plasma concentration profiles of insulin and amylin are similar with low fasting concentrations and increases in response to nutrient intake.
In subjects with diabetes,amylin is deficient in type 1 and impaired in type 2 diabetes. Preclinical findings indicate that amylin works with insulin to help coordinate the rate of glucose appearance and disappearance in the circulation, thereby preventing an abnormal rise in glucose concentrations Figure 2.
Postprandial glucose flux in nondiabetic controls. Postprandial glucose flux is a balance between glucose appearance in the circulation and glucose disappearance or uptake. Glucose appearance is a function of hepatic endogenous glucose production and meal-derived sources and is regulated by pancreatic and gut hormones.
Glucose disappearance is insulin mediated. Calculated from data in the study by Pehling et al. Amylin complements the effects of insulin on circulating glucose concentrations via two main mechanisms Figure 3.
Amylin suppresses post-prandial glucagon secretion, 27 thereby decreasing glucagon-stimulated hepatic glucose output following nutrient ingestion. This suppression of post-prandial glucagon secretion is postulated to be centrally mediated via efferent vagal signals.
Importantly,amylin does not suppress glucagon secretion during insulin-induced hypoglycemia. Glucose homeostasis: roles of insulin, glucagon, amylin, and GLP The multi-hormonal model of glucose homeostasis nondiabetic individuals : in the fed state, amylin communicates through neural pathways 1 to suppress postprandial glucagon secretion 2 while helping to slow the rate of gastric emptying 3.
These actions regulate the rate of glucose appearance in the circulation 4. In addition, incretin hormones, such as GLP-1, glucose-dependently enhance insulin secretion 6 and suppress glucagon secretion 2 and, via neural pathways, help slow gastric emptying and reduce food intake and body weight 5.
Amylin exerts its actions primarily through the central nervous system. Animal studies have identified specific calcitonin-like receptor sites for amylin in regions of the brain, predominantly in the area postrema.
The area postrema is a part of the dorsal vagal complex of the brain stem. A notable feature of the area postrema is that it lacks a blood-brain barrier, allowing exposure to rapid changes in plasma glucose concentrations as well as circulating peptides, including amylin.
In summary, amylin works to regulate the rate of glucose appearance from both endogenous liver-derived and exogenous meal-derived sources, and insulin regulates the rate of glucose disappearance.
Glucagon is a key catabolic hormone consisting of 29 amino acids. It is secreted from pancreatic α-cells. Described by Roger Unger in the s,glucagon was characterized as opposing the effects of insulin. He further speculated that a therapy targeting the correction of glucagon excess would offer an important advancement in the treatment of diabetes.
Hepatic glucose production, which is primarily regulated by glucagon,maintains basal blood glucose concentrations within a normal range during the fasting state. When plasma glucose falls below the normal range, glucagon secretion increases, resulting in hepatic glucose production and return of plasma glucose to the normal range.
When coupled with insulin's direct effect on the liver, glucagon suppression results in a near-total suppression of hepatic glucose output Figure 4. Insulin and glucagon secretion: nondiabetic and diabetic subjects. In nondiabetic subjects left panel , glucose-stimulated insulin and amylin release from the β -cells results in suppression of postprandial glucagon secretion.
In a subject with type 1 diabetes, infused insulin does not suppress α -cell production of glucagon. Adapted from Ref.
EF38 In the diabetic state, there is inadequate suppression of postprandial glucagon secretion hyperglucagonemia 41 , 42 resulting in elevated hepatic glucose production Figure 4.
Importantly,exogenously administered insulin is unable both to restore normal postprandial insulin concentrations in the portal vein and to suppress glucagon secretion through a paracrine effect. This results in an abnormally high glucagon-to-insulin ratio that favors the release of hepatic glucose.
The intricacies of glucose homeostasis become clearer when considering the role of gut peptides. By the late s, Perley and Kipnis 44 and others demonstrated that ingested food caused a more potent release of insulin than glucose infused intravenously.
Additionally, these hormonal signals from the proximal gut seemed to help regulate gastric emptying and gut motility. Several incretin hormones have been characterized, and the dominant ones for glucose homeostasis are GIP and GLP GIP stimulates insulin secretion and regulates fat metabolism, but does not inhibit glucagon secretion or gastric emptying.
GLP-1 also stimulates glucose-dependent insulin secretion but is significantly reduced postprandially in people with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance. Derived from the proglucagon molecule in the intestine, GLP-1 is synthesized and secreted by the L-cells found mainly in the ileum and colon.
Circulating GLP-1 concentrations are low in the fasting state. However, both GIP and GLP-1 are effectively stimulated by ingestion of a mixed meal or meals enriched with fats and carbohydrates.
GLP-1 has many glucoregulatory effects Table 1 and Figure 3. In the pancreas,GLP-1 stimulates insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner while inhibiting glucagon secretion. Infusion of GLP-1 lowers postprandial glucose as well as overnight fasting blood glucose concentrations.
Yet while GLP-1 inhibits glucagon secretion in the fed state, it does not appear to blunt glucagon's response to hypoglycemia. Administration of GLP-1 has been associated with the regulation of feeding behavior and body weight. Of significant and increasing interest is the role GLP-1 may have in preservation of β-cell function and β-cell proliferation.
Our understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetes is evolving. Type 1 diabetes has been characterized as an autoimmune-mediated destruction of pancreaticβ-cells. Early in the course of type 2 diabetes, postprandial β-cell action becomes abnormal, as evidenced by the loss of immediate insulin response to a meal.
Abnormal gastric emptying is common to both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The rate of gastric emptying is a key determinant of postprandial glucose concentrations Figure 5.
In individuals with diabetes, the absent or delayed secretion of insulin further exacerbates postprandial hyperglycemia. Both amylin and GLP-1 regulate gastric emptying by slowing the delivery of nutrients from the stomach to the small intestine.
Gastric emptying rate is an important determinant of postprandial glycemia. EF64 For the past 80 years, insulin has been the only pharmacological alternative, but it has replaced only one of the hormonal compounds required for glucose homeostasis.
Newer formulations of insulin and insulin secretagogues, such as sulfonylureas and meglitinides, have facilitated improvements in glycemic control. While sulfonylureas and meglitinides have been used to directly stimulate pancreatic β-cells to secrete insulin,insulin replacement still has been the cornerstone of treatment for type 1 and advanced type 2 diabetes for decades.
Advances in insulin therapy have included not only improving the source and purity of the hormone, but also developing more physiological means of delivery. Clearly, there are limitations that hinder normalizing blood glucose using insulin alone. First, exogenously administered insulin does not mimic endogenous insulin secretion.
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