Project description:Metformin is first line treatment for type 2 diabetes, however its exact mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Furthermore, the role of glucose transporter in intestine are highlighted to investigate metabolic change. We here report RNA change after metformin treatment in ileum tissue. We are going to focus on change of glucose transporter and relate factor of those changes. In previous study metformin increases expression of GLUT1/GLUT2 in ileum and metformin plays role as complex1 inhibitor so we are going to find target of metformin-induced glucose metabolic increasment
Project description:Research findings of the past decade have highlighted the gut as the main site of action of the oral antihyperglycemic agent metformin despite its pharmacological role in the liver. Extensive evidence supports metformin’s modulatory effect on the composition and function of gut microbiota, nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms of the host responses remain elusive. Our study aimed to evaluate metformin-induced alterations in the intestinal transcriptome profiles at different metabolic states. The high-fat diet-induced type 2 diabetes mouse model of both sexes was developed in a randomized block experiment and bulk RNA-Seq of the ileum tissue was the method of choice for comparative transcriptional profiling after metformin intervention for ten weeks. We found a prominent transcriptional effect of the diet itself with comparatively fewer genes responding to metformin intervention. The overrepresentation of immune-related genes was observed, including pronounced metformin-induced upregulation of immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable regioncoding Ighv1-7 gene in both high-fat diet and control diet-fed animals, supporting the contribution of intestinal immunoglobulin responses. Finally, we provide evidence of the downregulation NF-kappa B signaling pathway in the small intestine of both hyperglycemic and normoglycemic animals after metformin treatment. Moreover, our data pinpoint the gut microbiota as a crucial component in the metformin-mediated downregulation of NF-kappaB signaling evidenced by a positive correlation between the Rel and Rela gene expression levels and abundances of Parabacteroides distasonis, Bacteroides spp., and Lactobacillus spp. in the gut microbiota of the same animals.
Project description:Optimal treatment for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has not yet been established, particularly for individuals without diabetes. We examined the effects of metformin, commonly used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, on liver pathology in a non-diabetic NASH mouse model. Eight-week-old C57BL/6 mice were fed a methionine- and choline-deficient (MCD) + high fat (HF) diet with or without 0.1% metformin for 8 weeks.
Project description:NOD-SCID mouse were treated with metformin for 11 and 24 days, the gene expression of tumors of mice treated with metformin were compared with respect to the expression of the tumors of mouse treated with vehicle (water). We evaluated the effect of Metformin (525mg/kg/day) for two times of treatment (11 days and 24 days) upon gene expression in tumors of mice treated or not with metformin. Metformin treatment decreased of tumor growth in both treatment regimens. A complete genomic analysis of transcriptomic status after treatment with metformin revealed an impact on the overall expression of transcripts.
Project description:Here, we report that Metformin shows a striking synergistic effect with Gilteritinib in suppressing cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in multiple FLT3-ITD AML cell lines, including FLT3 TKI-resistant MOLM13 cells. Mechanistically, the combinational treatment synergistically suppresses Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) expression and phosphorylation of FLT3/STAT5/ERK/mTOR in MOLM13-RES cells. Intriguingly, our retrospective clinical analysis has unveiled a significant correlation between Metformin intake and improved survival rates among FLT3-ITD AML patients. Collectively, the cotreatment of Metformin and Gilteritinib shows robustly enhanced therapeutic efficacy in treating FLT3-mutated AML by synergistically suppressing PLK1 expression and phosphorylation of FLT3/STAT5/ERK/mTOR.