[Glucose metabolic clearance during acute cold exposure. Effects of insulin and glucagon (author's transl)]

The glucose metabolic clearance (CMG) was measured by using tritiated glucose in dogs either resting at neutral ambient temperature (TaN = + 25 degrees C) or shivering in the cold (TaC = 21 degrees C). Between two control periods, insulin and/or glucagon deficiencies were provoked by jugular somatostatin infusion without or with portal insulin (glucagon deficiency) or glucagon infusion (insulin deficiency). It was observed that: (1) In absence of hormonal deficiency, CMG was about twice as high at TaC as at TaN; (2) A simultaneous insulin and glucagon deficiency decreased CMG only at TaC; (3) Both at TaN and TaC, the CMG was either decreased or increased by insulin or glucagon deficiency respectively; (4) The magnitude (16-30%) of the hormonal-induced variations were small by comparison with the increase induced by the lowering of the ambient temperature.