Preoperative feeding does not reverse postoperative insulin resistance in skeletal muscle in the rat
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Preoperative feeding does not reverse postoperative insulin resistance in skeletal muscle in the rat
Abstract
Metabolic studies on injured and postoperative patients have shown impaired glucose disposal in peripheral tissues after trauma. Using small-bowel resection as a model of surgical trauma, we investigated whether substrate availability could ameliorate the changes in muscle glucose uptake induced by trauma. We also studied the effect of preoperative feeding on postoperative insulin-stimulated insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1)-associated phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase activity in both Wistar rats and genetically non-insulin-dependent diabetic Goto-Kakazaki rats (GK rats). Serum glucose, insulin, plasma epinephrine, lactate, and plasma nonesterified free fatty acids (NEFAs) were measured as indicators of the metabolic state and surgical stress. Insulin-stimulated glucose transport was significantly reduced in fed traumatized Wistar rats compared with fed nontraumatized rats (P < .05). Significant increases in in vivo insulin-stimulated IRS-1-associated PI 3-kinase activity were found in fed traumatized Wistar rats compared with fed nontraumatized Wistar rats and fasted traumatized Wistar rats, as well as fed traumatized GK rats compared with fed nontraumatized GK animals (all P < .017). Serum insulin concentrations were significantly reduced in fed traumatized Wistar and GK rats compared with the respective fed nontraumatized groups (both P < .01). Serum glucose levels were significantly elevated in fed traumatized GK rats compared with fed nontraumatized animals (P < .01). In the present study, preoperative feeding did not prevent a postoperative reduction in insulin-stimulated glucose transport in skeletal muscle. The finding that insulin-stimulated PI 3-kinase activity increased after trauma in both Wistar and GK rats indicates that postoperative insulin resistance is not caused by an impairment in the early steps of the insulin signaling pathway. The postoperative decreases in serum insulin despite high blood glucose suggest that trauma impairs the insulin response to hyperglycemia.
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