Insulin Responses to Administrations of Amino Acids and Fatty Acids in Healthy Cats.

The article presents a study which examines the changes in plasma glucose and insulin concentrations after intravenous administration of amino acids and fatty acids in healty cats to compare the stimulation ability of insulin secretion. The authors state that arginine had a strong insulinotropic effect while leucine, alanine, and fatty acids had weak ones. They conclude that intravenous arginine tolerance test may be useful for estimation of insulin response in cats.