Nicole Bruce, James Thornham, I-An Wei, Michael G Roper, Richard Bertram
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In previous work, we demonstrated that a negative feedback loop with a small time delay, to account for the time required for islets to be exposed to a new glucose concentration in vivo, results in small 3-6 islet populations synchronizing to produce fast closed-loop oscillations. However, these same islet populations could also produce slow closed-loop oscillations with periods longer than the natural islet oscillation periods. Here, we investigate the origin of the slow oscillations and the bistability with the fast oscillations using larger islet populations (20-50 islets). In contrast to what was observed earlier, larger islet populations mainly synchronize to longer-period oscillations that are approximately twice the delay time used in the feedback loop. A mean-field model was also used as a proxy for a large islet population to uncover the underlying mechanism for the slow rhythm. The heterogeneous intrinsic oscillation periods of the islets interferes with this rhythm mechanism when islet populations are small, and is similar to adding noise to the mean-field model. 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A mechanism for slow rhythms in coordinated pancreatic islet activity.
Insulin levels in the blood oscillate with a variety of periods, including rapid (5-10 min), ultradian (50-120 min), and circadian (24 h). Oscillations of insulin are beneficial for lowering blood glucose and disrupted rhythms are found in people with type 2 diabetes and their close relatives. These in vivo secretion dynamics imply that the oscillatory activity of individual islets of Langerhans are synchronized, although the mechanism for this is not known. One mechanism by which islets may synchronize is negative feedback of insulin on whole-body glucose levels. In previous work, we demonstrated that a negative feedback loop with a small time delay, to account for the time required for islets to be exposed to a new glucose concentration in vivo, results in small 3-6 islet populations synchronizing to produce fast closed-loop oscillations. However, these same islet populations could also produce slow closed-loop oscillations with periods longer than the natural islet oscillation periods. Here, we investigate the origin of the slow oscillations and the bistability with the fast oscillations using larger islet populations (20-50 islets). In contrast to what was observed earlier, larger islet populations mainly synchronize to longer-period oscillations that are approximately twice the delay time used in the feedback loop. A mean-field model was also used as a proxy for a large islet population to uncover the underlying mechanism for the slow rhythm. The heterogeneous intrinsic oscillation periods of the islets interferes with this rhythm mechanism when islet populations are small, and is similar to adding noise to the mean-field model. Thus, the effect of a time delay in the glucose feedback mechanism is similar to other examples of time-delayed systems in biology and may be a viable mechanism for ultradian oscillations.
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