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Under conditions of sustained hyperglycemia, glycogen accumulates in pancreatic islets, but not so in acinar pancreatic cells. We investigated whether advantage could be taken of such a situation in the perspective of the noninvasive imaging of the endocrine pancreas. Control rats or animals injected with streptozotocin (STZ) were infused with solutions of d-glucose mixed with a tracer amount of d-[U-14C]glucose, and the radio-active glycogen content of both liver and pancreas was then measured. After 48 h of infusion, the radio-active glycogen content of the pancreas was 30 times lower in STZ rats than in control animals, coinciding with a 50 times lower insulin content. In the control rats, a sizable labeling of pancreatic glycogen was also recorded when d-[U-14C]glucose was infused for only the last 4 h of unlabeled d-glucose infusion; such a labeling was not decreased when the animals were further infused for 1 h with only the unlabeled hexose. Moreover, a pronounced difference in the pancreatic gland and blood radioactive content of control rats was still observed when the hyperglycemic animals were killed only 40 min after the iv injection of d-[U-14C]glucose. In STZ rats transplanted with islets and later infused with d-[U-14C]glucose, the total radioactive content and radioactive glycogen content were both much higher in the transplanted islets than in the pancreatic gland. These results allow one to define the conditions under which the administration of either 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose or 11C-labeled d-glucose could conceivably be used to favor the selective labeling of the endocrine, as distinct from exocrine, pancreas.
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Ladrière, L., Louchami, K., Laghmich, A. et al. Labeling of pancreatic glycogen by d-[U-14C]glucose in hyperglycemic rats. Endocr 14, 383–397 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1385/ENDO:14:3:383
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