title: Cadmium-induced insulin release does not involve changes in intracellular handling of calcium.
abstract: A possible interaction between Cd2+ and Ca2+ as a component in Cd2+-induced insulin release was investigated in beta cells isolated from obese hyperglycemic mice. The glucose stimulated Cd2+ uptake was dependent on the concentration of sugar. This uptake was sigmoidal with a Km for glucose of about 5 mM and was suppressed by both 50 microM of the voltage-activated Ca2+ channel blocker D-600 and 12 mM Mg2+. In the presence of 8 mM glucose 5 microM Cd2+ evoked a prompt and sustained stimulatory response, corresponding to about 3-fold of the insulin release obtained in the absence of the ion. Whereas 5 microM Cd2+ was without effect on the glucose-stimulated 45Ca efflux in the presence of extracellular Ca2+, 40 microM inhibited it. At a concentration of 5 microM, Cd2+ had no effect on the resting membrane potential or the depolarization evoked by either glucose or K+. In the absence of extracellular Ca2+ there was only a modest stimulation of 45Ca efflux by 5 microM Cd2+. Studies of the ambient free Ca2+ concentration maintained by permeabilized cells also indicate that 5 microM Cd2+ do not mobilize intracellularly bound Ca2+ to any great extent. On the contrary, at this concentration, Cd2+ even suppressed inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-induced Ca2+ release. The present study suggests that Cd2+ stimulates insulin release by a direct mechanism which does not involve an increase in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Berggren
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hellman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002104:Cadmium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004347:Drug Interactions; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000378:metabolism; D007295:Inositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007424:Intracellular Fluid / Q000378:metabolism; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008820:Mice, Obese / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007295:Inositol Phosphates; D007328:Insulin; D002104:Cadmium; D005947:Glucose; D002118:Calcium