RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Selective Enhancement of Nutrient-Induced Insulin Secretion by ATP-Sensitive K+ Channel-Blocking Imidazolines JF Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics JO J Pharmacol Exp Ther FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics SP 1033 OP 1041 DO 10.1124/jpet.109.152751 VO 331 IS 3 A1 Hatlapatka, Kathrin A1 Wienbergen, Antje A1 Kühne, Claudia A1 Jörns, Anne A1 Willenborg, Michael A1 Rustenbeck, Ingo YR 2009 UL http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/331/3/1033.abstract AB The contribution of ATP-sensitive K+ channel (KATP channel)-dependent and -independent signaling to the insulinotropic characteristics of imidazolines was explored using perifused mouse islets and β-cells. Up to a concentration of 100 μM efaroxan had no insulinotropic effect in the presence of a basal glucose concentration, but enhanced the effect of a stimulatory concentration of glucose or nonglucidic nutrients (ketoisocaproate plus glutamine). The secretion by a non-nutrient (40 mM KCl) was not enhanced. At 500 μM, efaroxan stimulated insulin secretion when glucose was basal. Likewise, at 0.1 to 10 μM RX871024 [2-(imidazolin-2-yl)-1-phenylindole] showed a purely enhancing effect, but at 100 μM it elicited a strong KCl-like secretory response in the presence of basal glucose. At 0.1 and 1 μM RX871024 did not significantly depolarize the β-cell membrane. However, at a purely enhancing drug concentration (10 μM RX871024 or 100 μM efaroxan) KATP channel activity was strongly reduced, the membrane was depolarized, and the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration was elevated in the presence of basal glucose. Insulin secretion by sulfonylurea receptor (SUR)1 knockout (KO) islets, which have no functional KATP channels, was not increased by efaroxan (100 or 500 μM) or by 10 μM RX871024 but was increased by 100 μM RX871024. The imidazolines phentolamine and alinidine (100 μM) were also ineffective on SUR1 KO islets. It is concluded that a significant KATP channel block is compatible with a purely enhancing effect of the imidazolines on nutrient-induced insulin secretion. Only RX871024 has an additional, nondepolarizing effect, which at a high drug concentration is able to elicit a KATP channel-independent secretion.© 2009 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics