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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064633
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan [19390251, 21390282, 24390235]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Japan Medical Association
- Japan Diabetes Foundation
- Suzuken Memorial Foundation
- Naito Foundation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Yokohama General Promotion Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Insulin Research Foundation
- Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24390235, 23591315, 25670435] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The precise role of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a target of metformin, in pancreatic beta cells remains controversial, even though metformin was recently shown to enhance the expression of incretin receptors (GLP-1 and GIP receptors) in pancreatic beta cells. In this study, we investigated the effect of AMPK in the regulation of incretin receptors expression in pancreatic islets. The phosphorylation of AMPK in the mouse islets was decreased by increasing glucose concentrations. We showed the expression of incretin receptors in bell-shaped response to glucose; Expression of the incretin receptors in the isolated islets showed higher levels under a medium glucose concentration (11.1 mM) than that under a low glucose concentration (2.8 mM), but was suppressed under a high glucose concentration (22.2 mM). Both treatment with an AMPK inhibitor and DN-AMPK expression produced a significant increase of the incretin receptors expression under a low glucose concentration. By contrast, in hyperglycemic db/db islets, the enhancing effect of the AMPK inhibitor on the expression of incretin receptors was diminished under a low glucose concentration. Taken together, AMPK is involved in the regulation of incretin receptors expression in pancreatic islets under a low glucose concentration.
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