Mechanism underlying metformin action and its potential to reduce gastric cancer risk

WH Lan, TY Lin, JA Yeh, CL Feng, JT Hsu… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Diabetes mellitus is associated with a high risk of developing gastric cancer (GC). Metformin,
which is conventionally used to treat type 2 diabetes, induces AMP-activated protein kinase …

New tricks of old drugs: Repurposing non-chemo drugs and dietary phytochemicals as adjuvants in anti-tumor therapies

M Zhang, X Chen, N Radacsi - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
Combination therapy has long been applied to enhance therapeutic effect and deal with the
occurrence of multi-drug resistance in cancer treatment. However, the overlapping toxicity of …

Insulin resistance in osteoarthritis: similar mechanisms to type 2 diabetes mellitus

EV Tchetina, GA Markova… - Journal of nutrition and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Osteoarthritis (OA) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) are two of the most widespread
chronic diseases. OA and T2D have common epidemiologic traits, are considered …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial dysfunction in the fetoplacental unit in gestational diabetes mellitus

L Sobrevia, P Valero, A Grismaldo… - … Et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a disease of pregnancy that is associated with d-
glucose intolerance and foeto-placental vascular dysfunction. GMD causes mitochondrial …

Old drug, new tricks: the utility of metformin in infection and vaccination responses to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in older adults

DE Martin, AN Cadar, JM Bartley - Frontiers in Aging, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the face of global pathogens such as influenza (flu) and severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), strategies beyond standard vaccines and virus …

A dual pharmacological strategy against COVID-19: The therapeutic potential of metformin and atorvastatin

LA De Jesús-González, RM Del Ángel… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Metformin (MET) and atorvastatin (ATO) are promising treatments for COVID-19. This review
explores the potential of MET and ATO, commonly prescribed for diabetes and dyslipidemia …

Integrated or independent actions of metformin in target tissues underlying its current use and new possible applications in the endocrine and metabolic disorder area

G Tulipano - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Metformin is considered the first-choice drug for type 2 diabetes treatment. Actually,
pleiotropic effects of metformin have been recognized, and there is evidence that this drug …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin improves cognition of aged mice by promoting cerebral angiogenesis and neurogenesis

X Zhu, J Shen, S Feng, C Huang, Z Liu, YE Sun… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metformin is a widely used drug for type 2 diabetes that is considered to have potential anti-
aging effects. However, the beneficial effects of metformin in middle-aged normoglycemic …

The metabolic interplay between cancer and other diseases

A Le, S Udupa, C Zhang - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
Over the past decade, knowledge of cancer metabolism has expanded exponentially and
has provided several clinically relevant targets for cancer therapy. Although these current …

Can gallic acid potentiate the antihyperglycemic effect of acarbose and metformin? Evidence from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat model

G Oboh, MD Ogunbadejo, OB Ogunsuyi… - Archives of Physiology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the influence of dietary phenolic acid-Gallic acid (GA) on the
antihyperglycemic properties of acarbose (ACA) and metformin (MET). Streptozotocin …