title: Effects of oral carbohydrate on autonomic nervous system counterregulatory responses during hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia and euglycemia.
abstract: The effects of oral carbohydrate on modulating counterregulatory responses in humans remain undecided. This study's specific aim was to determine the effects of oral carbohydrate on autonomic nervous system (ANS) and neuroendocrine responses during hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia and euglycemia. Nineteen healthy volunteers were studied during paired, single blind experiments. Nine subjects underwent two-step glucose clamps consisting of 60 min of euglycemia (5.0 mmol/l) followed by either 15 g of oral carbohydrate (cal) as orange juice or a noncaloric control (nocal) and subsequent 90 min of clamped hypoglycemia (2.9 mmol/l). Ten other subjects underwent two randomized 150-min hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps with cal or nocal control administered at 60 min. Oral carbohydrate initially blunted (P < 0.05) epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, glucagon, pancreatic polypeptide, muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), symptom, and systolic blood pressure responses during hypoglycemia. However, by the end of 90 min of hypoglycemia, plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine responses had rebounded and were increased (P < 0.05) compared with control. MSNA and cortisol levels remained suppressed during hypoglycemia (P < 0.05) after cal, whereas pancreatic polypeptide, glucagon, symptom, and blood pressure responses increased similar to control following initial suppression. Oral carbohydrate had no effects on neuroendocrine or ANS responses during hyperinsulinemic euglycemia. These results demonstrate that oral carbohydrate can have differential effects on the time course of ANS and neuroendocrine responses during hypoglycemia. We conclude that gastro-splanchnic-portal sensing of an amount of carbohydrate recommended for use in clinical practice for correction of hypoglycemia can have widespread and significant effects on central nervous system mediated counterregulatory responses in healthy humans.
authors.affiliation: Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dept. of Medicine, 7465 MRB IV, Nashville, TN 37232-0475, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ertl
authors.forename: Stephnie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Antoinette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: Vanessa J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Briscoe
authors.forename: Hannah B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Blair
authors.forename: Donna B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Tate
authors.forename: Stephen N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005934:Glucagon / Q000097:blood; D015309:Glucose Clamp Technique; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000097:blood; D006946:Hyperinsulinism / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology; D009490:Neurosecretory Systems / Q000502:physiology; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000097:blood; D010191:Pancreatic Polypeptide / Q000378:metabolism; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D002241:Carbohydrates; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin; D010191:Pancreatic Polypeptide; D005934:Glucagon; D006854:Hydrocortisone; D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine