title: Perfusion of the pancreas isolated from pertussis-sensitized rats: potentiation of insulin secretory responses due to beta-adrenergic stimulation.
abstract: In order to study the mechanism by which pertussis-sensitized rats showed enhanced insulin secretory responses to various secretagogues (Sumi, T., and M. Ui, Endocrinology 97: 352, 1975), pancreases of rats receiving a single injection of Bordetella pertussis cells 3 days before were perfused with Krebs-Ringer solution, and release of insulin therefrom was compared with that from the pancreases of normal rats. Much more insulin was released from the pancreas of the pertussis-sensitized rat than from the pancreas of the normal rat in response to glucose, arginine, glibenclamide and 3-isobuty-l-methylxanthine. The inhibition of insulin secretion caused by epinephrine, norepinephrine or phenylephrine via alpha-adrenergic receptors in the pancreas of normal rats was no longer observable with the pancreas from pertussis-sensitized rats. Instead, the addition of epinephrine with or without phentolamine gave rise to a marked secretion of insulin from the pancreas of pertussis-sensitized rats which was prevented by propranolol. It is concluded that a single injection of B. pertussis into rats results in a sustained modification of insulin secretory processes in the pancreatic beta-cells in such a manner as to favor insulin secretory responses to beta-adrenergic stimulation and other secretagogues.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000494:pharmacology; D001886:Bordetella pertussis / Q000276:immunology*; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D005905:Glyburide / Q000494:pharmacology; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010179:Pancreas / Q000378:metabolism*; D010646:Phentolamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010656:Phenylephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011433:Propranolol / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D014970:Xanthines / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D014970:Xanthines; D010656:Phenylephrine; D001120:Arginine; D011433:Propranolol; D005947:Glucose; D005905:Glyburide; D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine; D010646:Phentolamine