Glucose metabolism and oscillatory behavior of pancreatic islets

Details Glucose metabolism and oscillatory behavior of pancreatic islets Glucose metabolism and oscillatory behavior of pancreatic islets

2005-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0509029v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Cell Behavior

11 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.051905

A variety of oscillations are observed in pancreatic islets.We establish a model, incorporating two oscillatory systems of different time scales: One is the well-known bursting model in pancreatic beta-cells and the other is the glucose-insulin feedback model which considers direct and indirect feedback of secreted insulin. These two are coupled to interact with each other in the combined model, and two basic assumptions are made on the basis of biological observations: The conductance g_{K(ATP)} for the ATP-dependent potassium current is a decreasing function of the glucose concentration whereas the insulin secretion rate is given by a function of the intracellular calcium concentration. Obtained via extensive numerical simulations are complex oscillations including clusters of bursts, slow and fast calcium oscillations, and so on. We also consider how the intracellular glucose concentration depends upon the extracellular glucose concentration, and examine the inhibitory effects of insulin.

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