INSULIN RESISTANCE Flashcards
What four organs contribute to hyperglycaemia?
Pancreas - decreased insulin output
Muscle - decreased glucose uptake
Fat - decreased glucose uptake and lipolysis
Liver - gluconeogenesis not inhibited
What are the two different fat types?
android fat is harmful – fat above the waist – linked to metabolic syndrome . fat bellow the waist – gynoid fat is harmless – insulin sensitive
What pathway occurs for beta cells?
Increased output and beta cell compensation, alterations in beta cell expression and genetic alterations, beta cell failure
What is the link between diabetes and cancer in terms of risk?
Diabetics are 5% more likely to develop cancer than non-diabetics (treating with insulin and sulphonylureas can increase risk)
What treatment in diabetics increases the risk of cancer?
Sulphonylureas and insulin
What happens in an insulin receptor knock out mouse?
Insulin receptor knock out mice: born at term with slight growth impairment but then get progressively high glucose levels. Then get beta cell failure (excessive degranulation) and death within 48-72 hours from hyperglycaemia and ketoacidosis
What happens in muscle specific knock out mice?
70-90% of an oral glucose load is taken up in skeletal muscle and this is one of the first defective sites in T2DM. But muscle specific IR KO mice have normal glucose and insulin tolerance tests. 75% less insulin stimulated glucose transport,78% less glycogen synthesis. Decrease in protein muscle mass. There is a redistribution of glucose to adipose tissue and increased body fat. 16% increase in free fatty acids 48% increase in serum TG
Liver specific insulin receptor knock out mice?
LIVER specific insulin receptor knock out mice are massively glucose intolerant and insulin resistant. Islet cell hypertrophy. Only 20% of an oral glucose load is taken up by adipose tissue which normally impairs lipolysis.
What happened in a glut 4 ko mouse?
Glut4 translocation to the plasma membrane: in the absence of insulin its in the nucleus but when insulin is present it goes to the membrane allowing glucose to enter the cell muscle specific glut4 knockout mouse: had higher levels of glucose after glucose injection
What happens in beta cell IRKO mice?
you get a progressive deterioration of glucose tolerance. Loss of the first phase response to glucose ( which is important as stops hepatic gluconeogenesis, comes from a stored pool of insulin).
What has been found concerning glut 4?
It has been found that there are 2 types of GLUT 4 receptors – one which is responsive to exercise (insulin independent via PKC and AMPK) and the other which is responsive to insulin (via the PI3K pathway – Akt stimulates the GLUT4 vesicles in the cytoplasm to move to the membrane)
What is AMPK’s role?
It was also shown that inactivation of AMPK in muscle cells causes mild glucose intolerance
When glucose is transported into the muscles via insulin or excerise if it is not used it gets stored as glycogen, if glycogen stores are high then this has negative feedback on the AMPK preventing more glucose entering – but if you exercise then this improves glucose tolerance as there is less glucogen negative feedback
What does AMPK do in the pancreas?
Decreased insulin levels
What does AMPK do in the muscle?
Increased glucose uptake, lipid oxidation and mitochondrial biogenesis
What does AMPK do in the liver?
Decreased hepatogluconeogenesis and increased lipid oxidation and decreased lipid synthesis
What does AMPK do in the fat?
Decreased lipogenesis and lipolysis meaning decreased circulating insulin and increased insulin sensitivity
What are AMPK’s roles concerning exercise?
decreases insulin secretion, increases exercise induced muscle glucose transport
When is AMPK activated?
When AMPK is activated (in starvation) it will inhibit pathways which use energy – stops fatty acid and protein synthesis, and stimulates pathways for energy production – fatty acid oxidation and glucose transport
metformin activates AMPK which causes decreased glucose and lipid synthesis – by blocking insulin secretion from the pancreas and increasing insulin sensitivity which appears to have beneficial effects on the B cells
What happens in adipose tissue knock out mice?
Adipose tissue insulin receptor knockout mice: found that knockout mice had improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, protection against hyperphagia induced obesity and inc longevity
Overall what happens in IRKO for liver, muscle and fat?
So: Muslce insulin knockout = no effect Liver = negative effect Adipose = positive effect
What happens in neuron specific IRKO?
Neuron specific insulin receptor knockout mouse: lots of insulin receptors are in the brain, but the brain metabolises glucose in an insulin independent manner however insulin receptor knockout mice were still: hyperphagic, obese, hyperleptinemic, insulin resistance, high TG reduced fertility 2ndry to hypothalamic hypogonadism (females mostly effected) – role in limiting reproduction in times of food deprivation?
What happens in BAT IRKO?
Brown adipocyte insulin receptor knockout mouse: progressive deterioration of glucose tolerance, progressive loss of BC mass and function –still unsure if the BAT is an endocrine organ and there is an adipokine which promotes B cell growth?
What activates AMPK?
. It is activated by increases in the cellular AMP:ATP ratio caused by metabolic stresses that either interfere with ATP production (eg, deprivation for glucose or oxygen) or that accelerate ATP consumption (eg, muscle contraction).
Why is Metformin good in cancer?
Activates AMPK. Once activated, AMPK switches on catabolic pathways that generate ATP, while switching off ATP-consuming processes such as biosynthesis and cell growth and proliferation.
In obesity and diabetes, what contributes to insulin resistance?
Subclinical inflammation
What is another reason there is increased inflammation in obesity?
Decreased production of the anti-inflammatory ADIPONECTIN
How does obesity and inflammation cause insulin resistance?
Inflammatory cytokines and stress lead to JNK and TNF alpha that lead to serine phosphorylation of IRS
What way does stress contribute to insulin resistance?
Cortisol causes gluconeogenesis
What is another way that inflammation is linked to T2DM?
Inflammatory markers help to predict t2dm
What was a study looking at inflammation and T2DM?
Salicylate for prevention of t2dm/inflammation. Low dose inhibits COX, thrombosis and platelet aggregation.
High dose is an inhibitor of NFkB kinase that inhibits NfkB promoting deactivation and suppression of pro inflammatory signalling.
ANAKINRA: blocks interleukin 1b action that improves glycaemic control and pro insulin to insulin ratio
What is the general pathway of interleukins and TNF being produced?
Macrophages and monocytes produce TNFalpha and interleukins
Describe subclinical inflammation as a risk factor/
It does vary between those who do and do not have the disease (study looked at risk factors for metabolic syndrome and CRP), there is a biologically plausible mechanism. Sub clinical inflammation can be used to predict the outcome of DM. Does improvement of subclinical inflammation lead to an improvement in DM
How can subclinical inflammation be improved?
exercise reduces CRP
weight loss reduces CRP
weight loss in the obese reduces TNF-alpha, interleukin-6, P-selectin, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1
What study is there for improvement in inflammation leading to an improvement in DM?
The use of statins that decrease the risk of developping T2DM
What are causes of insulin resistance and how is inflammation linked?
Oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress), amyloid deposition in the pancreas, ectopic lipid deposition in the muscle, liver and pancreas, and lipotoxicity and glucotoxicity ALL OF WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED/EXACERBATED BY OBESITY
What is predictive of T2DM?
Furthermore, elevated levels of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-6 and CRP are predictive of T2D
What is particularly of note concerning CRP?
increased CRP level, which is currently the best epidemiological biomarker for T2D-associated cardiovascular disease
What is one counter-intuitive study for inflammation in T2DM?
Some animal studies and several clinical trials using TNF blockade have failed to demonstrate beneficial effects on glucose metabolism. However, a few small studies conducted with obese individuals suggest that TNF blockers may alter insulin sensitivity or glycaemic parameters, indicating that further prospective studies may be warranted
What is the association between macrophages and obesity?
The increase in the number of macrophages in adipose tissue largely correlates with the degree of obesity. Proposed hypothesis that adipose tissue is associated with a phenotypic switch in macrophages from a M2 to a M1 phenotype and that these M1-type macrophages contribute to the development of insulin resistance
Is there inflammation seen in the islets?
Tissue inflammation has also been detected in the islets of patients with T2D, along with increased levels of cytokines and chemokines. Of note, patients with T2D and every animal model of T2D investigated to date display immune cell infiltration of the islet. slet tissue sections from patients with T2D also show fibrosis, which is found in conjunction with amyloid deposits, and this also argues for an inflammatory response in islets, as fibrosis is a hallmark of chronic inflammation.
What is the role of NfKB?
Indeed, IKKβ activates the transcription factor nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), and obesity induces the expression of NF-κB target genes, such as pro-inflammatory cytokines, in the liver and adipose tissue1, 66, 67. These cytokines, including TNF, IL-6, and IL-1β, may promote insulin resistance in the tissues where they are produced, such as the liver and adipose tissue, and may also be transported through the circulation to affect more distant sites, including the vessel walls, skeletal and cardiac muscle, the kidneys and circulating leukocytes