ArticleRoss SA, Brown JC, Dupré J.
Diabetes. 1977 Jun;26(6):525-9.
Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) is insulinotropic and is released after ingestion of glucose in normal man. Changes in plasma immunoreactive gastric inhibitory polypeptide (IRGIP) were therefore studied during a 50-gm. oral glucose tolerance test in 10 normal subjects and 20 subjects with maturity-onset diabetes mellitus. The diabetics were nonobese and treated by diet alone; they exhibited exaggerated increments of plasma IRGIP in association with delayed and diminished peak increases in plasma immunoreactive insulin, suggesting relative failure of the beta-cell response to GIP. The diabetic subjects also showed a paradoxic rise in mean plasma immunoreactive glucagon, with a peak coinciding with that of plasma IRGIP. It is suggested that the defective beta-cell response may lead to diminished feedback inhibition of GIP secretion by insulin in diabetes mellitus and that the glucagonotropic action of GIP may be expressed under these conditions.