Faculty Research 1980 - 1989

Glucose utilization by the mouse brain: influence of age and diabetes.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1984

Keywords

Animal, Brain: me, Deoxyglucose: me, Diabetes-Mellitus-Experimental: fg, me, Female, Glucose: me, Mice, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

141

Last Page

146

JAX Source

Brain-Res. 1984 Aug; 317(2):141-6.

Grant

AM14461

Abstract

The effects of diabetes on the age-related changes in glucose utilization by various brain regions were examined in genetically diabetic (db/db) and normal (+/?) C57BL/KsJ mice following a 10 muCi injection of [3H]2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG). Brains were collected from 2 to 16-week-old mice at 30 min postinjection with 2-DOG, and the brain regions isolated by microdissection. Glucose utilization was expressed as mumol/mg/30 min for each brain region from match-paired control +/? and db/db mice. No differences in utilization were seen in brain regions from control and db/db mice at 2 weeks of age. In contrast, the diabetic condition effectively depressed the age-related increase in glucose metabolism associated with maturation in control mice between 4 and 16 weeks of age. Of particular interest was the observation that the pituitary gland of the db/db mice did not demonstrate a maturation-associated increase in glucose utilization typical of +/? mice. By 16 weeks of age, all of the brain regions of db/db mice exhibited a depressed glucose utilization rate as compared with +/? mice. These studies demonstrate that the diabetic condition impairs the normal age-related increase in CNS glucose utilization in the mouse, and suggests that decreased glucose utilization may be causally related to diabetes-associated, CNS and peripheral neuropathy.

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