Combination of metformin with chemotherapeutic drugs via different molecular mechanisms

M Peng, KO Darko, T Tao, Y Huang, Q Su, C He… - Cancer treatment …, 2017 - Elsevier
Metformin, a widely prescribed drug for treating type II diabetes, is one of the most
extensively recognized metabolic modulators which has shown an important anti-cancer …

Metformin as an adjuvant in breast cancer treatment

MHK Roshan, YK Shing, NP Pace - SAGE open medicine, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies in females. It is an etiologically
complex disease driven by a multitude of cellular pathways. The proliferation and spread of …

[HTML][HTML] Olive leaf extract impairs mitochondria by pro-oxidant activity in MDA-MB-231 and OVCAR-3 cancer cells

R Benot-Dominguez, MG Tupone, V Castelli… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast and ovarian cancers are the leading and fifth reason for tumor death among females,
respectively. Recently, many studies demonstrated antiproliferative activities of natural …

Metformin from mother to unborn child–Are there unwarranted effects?

L Nguyen, SY Chan, AKK Teo - EBioMedicine, 2018 - thelancet.com
For more than 40 years, metformin has been used before and during pregnancy. However, it
is important to note that metformin can cross the placenta and circulate in the developing …

AMPK function in mammalian spermatozoa

D Martin-Hidalgo, A Hurtado de Llera… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
AMP-activated protein kinase AMPK regulates cellular energy by controlling metabolism
through the inhibition of anabolic pathways and the simultaneous stimulation of catabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin reduces gastric cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

CH Tseng - Aging (Albany NY), 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This retrospective cohort study investigated whether metformin may reduce gastric cancer
risk by using the reimbursement databases of the Taiwan's National Health Insurance …

[HTML][HTML] Diclofenac and metformin synergistic dose dependent inhibition of hamster fibrosarcoma, rescued with mebendazole

DJ Popović, KJ Popović, D Miljković, JK Popović… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examined whether combinig diclofenac and metformin in doses equivalent to human
doses would synergize their anticancer activity on fibrosarcoma inoculated to hamsters and …

The mitochondrial H+-ATP synthase and the lipogenic switch: New core components of metabolic reprogramming in induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells

A Vazquez-Martin, B Corominas-Faja, S Cufi, L Vellon… - Cell cycle, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells share some basic properties, such as self-renewal and
pluripotency, with cancer cells, and they also appear to share several metabolic alterations …

Metformin, an anti-diabetic drug to target leukemia

G Biondani, JF Peyron - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Metformin, a widely used anti-diabetic molecule, has attracted a strong interest in the last 10
years as a possible new anti-cancer molecule. Metformin acts by interfering with …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin for cancer and aging prevention: is it a time to make the long story short?

VN Anisimov - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During the last decade, the burst of interest is observed to antidiabetic biguanide metformin
as candidate drug for cancer chemoprevention. The analysis of the available data have …