C-peptide does not alter carbohydrate metabolism in isolated mouse muscle. Shashkin, Pavel N., Ying Jiao, H[angstrom]akan Westerblad, and Abram Katz. Department of Surgical Sciences, Division of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institute, 171 76 Karolinska Hospital, and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, 171 77 Karolinska Insititute, Stockholm, Sweden
APStracts 3:0218E, 1996.
The effects of C-peptide on carbohydrate metabolism in isolated mouse soleus muscle were studied. C-peptide, at concentrations up to 1000 nM, had no effect on either [14C]glucose incorporation into glycogen, glycogen synthase activity, or 2-deoxyglucose uptake. These data demonstrate that C-peptide has no direct effect on the measured parameters of carbohydrate metabolism in isolated mouse muscle.

Received 6 May 1996; accepted in final form 9 October 1996.
APS Manuscript Number E222-6.
Article publication pending Am. J. Physiol. (Endocrinol. Metab.).
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Published in APStracts on 13 November 1996