• Department of Plastic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China;
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ObjectiveTo investigate the effect and mechanism of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) on reducing blood glucose level. MethodsThirty GK rats were randomly divided into SG group, sham operation (SO) group, pair-fed (PF) group, and blank control (BC) group. The changes of weight, fasting blood glucose, glucose tolerance (oral glucose tolerance test, OGTT), insulin tolerance (insulin tolerance test, ITT), plasma insulin, ghrelin, and glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1) were monitored before and 24 weeks after operation respectively. ResultsFrom the 4th week after operation, weight gain in SG group and PF group began to decrease significantly compared with SO group (P lt;0.01). From the 2nd week after operation, fasting blood glucose level in SG group was lower than that in SO, PF, and BC groups (P lt;005), and the glucose tolerance in SG group obviously improved compared with preoperation and the other 3 groups (P lt;0.01). On the 6th week after operation, the insulin sensitivity in SG group obviously improved compared with SO group (P lt;0.05, P lt;0.01). There was no significant difference of insulin level between SG group and SO group (P gt;0.05), ghrelin level significantly decreased (P lt;0.01) while GLP-1 level significantly increased (P lt;0.01) in SG group compared with SO group during 2-24 weeks after operation. ConclusionsThe effect of SG on reducing blood glucose is definite. SG can directly lower blood glucose independent with weight loss. Postoperative decreased ghrelin level and increased GLP-1 level may be its primary mechanism.

Citation: ZHU Zhanyong,YAN Lingling,WU Dan,LUO Xiao,WU Yiping.. Influence of Sleeve Gastrectomy on Blood Glucose, Ghrelin, and Glucagon Like Peptide-1 Levels in GK Rats. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2011, 18(6): 603-609. doi: Copy