Sodium was measured in β-cell-rich pancreatic islets isolated from ob/ob-mice starved overnight. Exposure to glucose (5 or 20 mmol/l) resulted in about a 30% reduction of the sodium content whether or not the Na+/K+ pump was inhibited by removal of K+. The glucose effect was not potentiated after amiloride depression of Na+/H+ exchange, and it disappeared when combining removal of K+ with the addition of the hyperglycemic sulphonamide diazoxide (400 μmol/l). Tolbutamide (100 μmol/l) counteracted the reduction of sodium obtained with 5 mmol/l glucose both in the presence or absence of extracellular K+. It is concluded that closure of ATP-regulated K+ channels does not necessarily result in a lowering of the sodium content. The pancreatic β-cells can be regarded as exceptional among the excitable cells in not responding to their natural physiological stimulus (glucose) with increase of sodium.

Keywords:
Pancreatic islets, Glucose, Sodium, Sulphonamide, Amiloride
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1988
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