Meal-induced insulin sensitization and its parasympathetic regulation in humans

RS Patarrao, WW Lautt, RA Afonso… - Canadian journal of …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
In animal studies, the whole-body glucose disposal effect of insulin is low in the fasted state
or after atropine infusion, but doubles after a meal, consistent with the hepatic insulin …

HISS-dependent insulin resistance (HDIR) in aged rats is associated with adiposity, progresses to syndrome X, and is attenuated by a unique antioxidant cocktail

WW Lautt, Z Ming, MP Macedo, DJ Legare - Experimental gerontology, 2008 - Elsevier
The hypotheses were: HISS-dependent insulin resistance (HDIR) accounts for insulin
resistance that occurs with aging; HDIR is the initiating metabolic defect that leads …

Obesity, syndrome X, and diabetes: the role of HISS-dependent insulin resistance altered by sucrose, an antioxidant cocktail, and age

Z Ming, DJ Legare, WW Lautt - Canadian journal of physiology …, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
Absence of meal-induced insulin sensitization (AMIS) results in a predictable progression of
dysfunctions, including postprandial hyperglycemia, compensatory hyperinsulinemia …

High-fat diet results in postprandial insulin resistance that involves parasympathetic dysfunction

RA Afonso, WW Lautt, J Schafer, DJ Legare… - British journal of …, 2010 - cambridge.org
Different diets have distinct impacts on glucose homoeostasis, for which insulin sensitivity
(IS) after a meal (postprandial IS) is highly relevant. Postprandial IS depends upon hepatic …

Postprandial but not fasting insulin resistance is an early identifier of dysmetabolism in overweight subjects

RS Patarrão, WW Lautt, RA Afonso… - Canadian journal of …, 2012 - cdnsciencepub.com
The dynamic response to insulin is highly potentiated after meal ingestion, and this meal-
induced insulin sensitization (MIS) in healthy subjects is dependent on cholinergic …

Absence of meal-induced insulin sensitization (AMIS) in aging rats is associated with cardiac dysfunction that is protected by antioxidants

Z Ming, DJ Legare, WW Lautt - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
We have previously demonstrated that progressive development of absence of meal-
induced insulin sensitization (AMIS) leads to postprandial hyperglycemia, compensatory …

A synergistic, balanced antioxidant cocktail, protects aging rats from insulin resistance and absence of meal-induced insulin sensitization (AMIS) syndrome

HH Wang, KK Chowdhury, WW Lautt - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
A series of in vivo and in vitro studies using animal and human models in the past 15 years
have demonstrated that approximately 55%(~ 66% in humans) of the glucose disposal effect …

Hepatalin: the missing link in prediabetes, obesity, and type 2 diabetes

WW Lautt - Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Hepatalin is a hormone secreted by the liver in response to pulses of insulin after a mixed
nutrient meal, but only if the liver receives two permissive synergistic feeding signals from …

Interaction of antioxidants and exercise on insulin sensitivity in healthy and prediabetic rats

KK Chowdhury, DJ Legare… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Meal-induced insulin sensitization (MIS) describes the augmented postprandial response to
insulin through action of the hepatic insulin sensitizing substance (HISS). HISS-action is …

Obesity as an Early Symptom of the AMIS Syndrome

WW Lautt, HH Wang - Journal of clinical medicine, 2014 - mdpi.com
We review evidence that the AMIS (Absence of Meal-induced Insulin Sensitization)
syndrome describes a paradigm fundamental to development of obesity. The hypoglycemic …