WORK OUTPUT AND BLOOD GLUCOSE VALUES IN NORMAL AND IN DIABETIC RATS SUBJECTED TO THE STIMULATION OF MUSCLE

Abstract

Normal and diabetic male rats anesthetized with Na phenobar-bital were subjected to the faradic stimulation of both back legs at a rate of 5 times per sec. until the death of the animal or for 72 hrs. No glucose or insulin was admd. The stimulation of muscle caused a rapid fall in the level of blood glucose in both normal and diabetic rats, but to lower and more frequently fatal levels in the normals. The output of work was just as high in the diabetic animals which survived as in the normals.