“…Others have also observed stimulation of insulin release by bradykinin (36), ionophore (37), and other drugs, such as furosemide (38) and tumor-promoting phorbol esters (39), which are felt to activate phospholipase(s). Recently it has been shown that exogenous phospholipase C closely mimics the effects of glucose to selectively increase phosphatidylinositol turnover and to augment insulin release (40), apparently by activating a phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C. Interestingly, this kinase was activated by diacylglycerols containing arachidonate,2 linoleate, or oleate but not those containing stearate. It seems reasonable, therefore, to postulate that arachidonic acid release,2 via its oxygenated metabolite(s), may be a common final pathway by which several membrane-active agents, including glucose, promote genase-dependent endogenous ionophores (55,56 (44,45) and may simply relate in part to their use by the beta cell as fuels or the ability to alter intracellular levels of glucose metabolites (45).…”