Metformin and its benefits for various diseases

Z Lv, Y Guo - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Metformin is a widely used biguanide drug due to its safety and low cost. It has been used
for over 60 years to treat type 2 diabetes at the early stages because of its outstanding ability …

Metformin in therapeutic applications in human diseases: Its mechanism of action and clinical study

Y Du, YJ Zhu, YX Zhou, J Ding, JY Liu - Molecular Biomedicine, 2022 - Springer
Metformin, a biguanide drug, is the most commonly used first-line medication for type 2
diabetes mellites due to its outstanding glucose-lowering ability. After oral administration of …

Metformin: update on mechanisms of action and repurposing potential

M Foretz, B Guigas, B Viollet - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2023 - nature.com
Currently, metformin is the first-line medication to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in
most guidelines and is used daily by> 200 million patients. Surprisingly, the mechanisms …

The current and potential therapeutic use of metformin—the good old drug

J Drzewoski, M Hanefeld - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Metformin, one of the oldest oral antidiabetic agents and still recommended by almost all
current guidelines as the first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), has become …

Metformin: A review of potential mechanism and therapeutic utility beyond diabetes

S Dutta, RB Shah, S Singhal, SB Dutta… - Drug Design …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Metformin has been designated as one of the most crucial first-line therapeutic agents in the
management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Primarily being an antihyperglycemic agent …

Metformin: an old drug with new applications

J Zhou, S Massey, D Story, L Li - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Metformin is a biguanide drug that has been used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus for more
than 60 years. The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetic Study (UKPDS) has shown …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin: Is it a drug for all reasons and diseases?

CR Triggle, I Mohammed, K Bshesh, I Marei, K Ye… - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
Metformin was first used to treat type 2 diabetes in the late 1950s and in 2022 remains the
first-choice drug used daily by approximately 150 million people. An accumulation of …

Metformin: a review of its potential indications

YW Wang, SJ He, X Feng, J Cheng… - Drug design …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Metformin is the most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes mellitus. In recent years,
in addition to glucose lowering, several studies have presented evidence suggesting some …

Metformin intervention—a panacea for cancer treatment?

A Buczyńska, I Sidorkiewicz, AJ Krętowski… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This literature analysis is focused on the pleiotropic action associated with
metformin treatment. Precisely, metformin treatment exerts many health effects, mainly by …

Metformin: a review of its metabolic effects

K Cusi, RA DeFronzo - Diabetes Reviews, 1998 - scholars.uthscsa.edu
Metformin is a biguanide that has been used worldwide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes
for the past 4 decades. It improves glycemic control by enhancing insulin sensitivity in liver …