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The relationship between beta-cell replication and insulin release was investigated utilizing neonatal rat pancreatic monolayer cell cultures. Glucose-induced insulin release was either inhibited using diazoxide or mannoheptulose, or potentiated using theophylline. The corresponding effects on the frequency of beta-cell replication were determined by incubating cultures with [3H]thymidine and estimating the frequency of beta-cell labeling in aldehyde thionine-stained radioautographs. beta-Cell replication and insulin release were shown to be dissociable processes in two ways. First, in the presence of diazoxide (1-100 microgram/ml), insulin release was inhibited by as much as 86%, while the frequency of beta-cell replication was not reduced. Second, in the presence of theophylline (1 mM), insulin release was increased by 23%, while beta-cell replication was inhibited. Finally, the inhibition of both beta-cell replication and insulin release by mannoheptulose (5.5 mM) indicated that glucose utilization may be important for both of these beta-cell processes.
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W L Chick
September 1995,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
December 1991,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
October 1992,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
December 2001,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
October 2008,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
July 1994,
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D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
March 1972,
Science (New York, N.Y.),
D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
February 1992,
The American journal of physiology,
D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
October 1990,
FEBS letters,
D L King, and
K C Kitchen, and
W L Chick
March 1999,
The Journal of biological chemistry,
