Insulin modulates the frequency of Ca2+ oscillations in mouse pancreatic islets
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- Title
- Insulin modulates the frequency of Ca2+ oscillations in mouse pancreatic islets
- Authors
- Lee, Boah; Song, Taegeun; Lee, Kayoung; Kim, Jaeyoon; Berggren, Per-Olof; Ryu, Sung Ho; Jo, Junghyo
- Date Issued
- 2017-08
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Abstract
- Pancreatic islets can adapt to oscillatory glucose to produce synchronous insulin pulses. Can islets adapt to other oscillatory stimuli, specifically insulin? To answer this question, we stimulated islets with pulses of exogenous insulin and measured their Ca2+ oscillations. We observed that sufficiently high insulin (>500 nM) with an optimal pulse period (similar to 4 min) could make islets to produce synchronous Ca2+ oscillations. Glucose and insulin, which are key stimulatory factors of islets, modulate islet Ca2+ oscillations differently. Glucose increases the active-to-silent ratio of phases, whereas insulin increases the period of the oscillation. To examine the dual modulation, we adopted a phase oscillator model that incorporated the phase and frequency modulations. This mathematical model showed that out-of-phase oscillations of glucose and insulin were more effective at synchronizing islet Ca2+ oscillations than in-phase stimuli. This finding suggests that a phase shift in glucose and insulin oscillations can enhance inter-islet synchronization.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/50411
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0183569
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 8, 2017-08
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