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Extracellular Glucose Depletion as an Indirect Measure of Glucose Uptake in Cells and Tissues Ex Vivo
Published on: April 6, 2022
[Study of glucose concentrated solution consumption in rats and simulation of glucose distribution along the
Abstract:
Free ingestion of glucose solution (200 or 400 g/l) by Wistar rats, previously starved for 18-20 Hrs, was investigated in two groups of the animals: with intact small intestine (group 1, n = 9), and a shortened small intestine following the Thiry-Wella isolation of its one third proximal part (group 2, n = 9). In the rats of the group 2, the isolated intestinal loops were perfused in chronic experiments with soulutions of different glucose concentrations to estimate a permeability of the pre-epithelial ("unstirred") layer and "true" kinetic constants of glucose active transport. The rate of glusouse ingestion was found to be 1.3-fold as high in the of rats fgroup 1 than in the rats of group 2 (p < 0.01). According to results of mathematical modeling, the rate of glucose ingestion by rats corresponds to glucose concentration in the initial solutions and to the absorbing capacity of the small intestine due to the substrate regulation of gastric emptying. The model predicts that, during free ingestion by rats of 400 g/l (2200 mM) glucose solution, the substrate concentration in the intestinal lumen under steady state conditions hardly exceeds 75 mM. This fact contradicts a recently proposed hypothesis about a facilitated transport mediated by GLUT2 as the main mechanism of glucose absorption in the small intestine under normal conditions.
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