title: Possible effects of one week vitamin K (menaquinone-4) tablets intake on glucose tolerance in healthy young male volunteers with different descarboxy prothrombin levels.
abstract: To clarify the roles of vitamin K (VK) in the pancreas, twice oral, glucose tolerance tests were examined in 12 healthy young male volunteers before and after 1 week of VK tablet intake. Blood were collected by venipucture at 0, 30 and 120 min after 75 g oral glucose loading. They then took VK tablets (90 mg/d of menaquinone-4) for 1 week, and the second glucose tolerance test was examined. The subjects were divided into three groups by serum descarboxy prothrombin (DP) levels; four of lowest DP (L-DP), middle of DP (M-DP) and highest DP (H-DP) levels. They were compared by one-factor analysis of variance and Scheffè's F (group differences) and paired t -test (the effects of 1 week of VK intake). Age, body mass index and glucose status [plasma glucose (PG) and immunoreactive insulin (IRI), hemoglobin-Alc, fructosamine] of all groups were almost the same, but the IRI of the H-DP group was higher than that of the other groups at 120 min after the glucose loading (mean+/-SEM; L; 10.6+/-0.9, M-; 17.5+/-4.2, H-; 40.4+/-6.0 microU/ml). One week of VK intake tended to decrease the plasma DP levels of all groups and significantly reduced IRI of the H-DP at 120 min by half (before; 40.4+/-6.0 vs after: 18.4+/-4.6 microU/ml). The IRI/pG ratio in areas under the curve (AUC) of H-DP from 0 to 120 min after the loading was significantly decreased by 1 week of VK tablet intake (before: 31.0+/-7.4 vs after: 20/1+/-3.8 microU/g). These results suggested that there may be some relationship between pharmacological dose of vitamin K and insulin response.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygiene, Hygo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishiike
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015415:Biomarkers; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000097:blood*; D011516:Prothrombin; D013607:Tablets; D013997:Time Factors; D014812:Vitamin K / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D011498:Protein Precursors; D013607:Tablets; D014812:Vitamin K; C008208:acarboxyprothrombin; D011516:Prothrombin