[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 …

Mitophagy in Alzheimer's disease: Molecular defects and therapeutic approaches

A Mary, F Eysert, F Checler, M Chami - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial dysfunctions are central players in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition,
impairments in mitophagy, the process of selective mitochondrial degradation by autophagy …

Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complexes in neurodegeneration

H Querfurth, HK Lee - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2021 - Springer
Novel targets to arrest neurodegeneration in several dementing conditions involving
misfolded protein accumulations may be found in the diverse signaling pathways of the …

Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

B Boland, WH Yu, O Corti, B Mollereau… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson
disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin as a tool to target aging

N Barzilai, JP Crandall, SB Kritchevsky, MA Espeland - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Aging has been targeted by genetic and dietary manipulation and by drugs in order to
increase lifespan and health span in numerous models. Metformin, which has demonstrated …

Autophagy and Alzheimer's disease: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic implications

MS Uddin, A Stachowiak, AA Mamun… - Frontiers in aging …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of progressive dementia in the elderly.
It is characterized by a progressive and irreversible loss of cognitive abilities and formation …

Tau and neurodegenerative disease: the story so far

K Iqbal, F Liu, CX Gong - Nature reviews neurology, 2016 - nature.com
In 1975, tau protein was isolated as a microtubule-associated factor from the porcine brain.
In the previous year, a paired helical filament (PHF) protein had been identified in …

Metformin reduces all-cause mortality and diseases of ageing independent of its effect on diabetes control: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JM Campbell, SM Bellman, MD Stephenson… - Ageing Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
This systematic review investigated whether the insulin sensitiser metformin has a
geroprotective effect in humans. Pubmed and Embase were searched along with databases …

Identification of Integrator-PP2A complex (INTAC), an RNA polymerase II phosphatase

H Zheng, Y Qi, S Hu, X Cao, C Xu, Z Yin, X Chen, Y Li… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION RNA cleavage and phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of the RNA
polymerase II (Pol II) C-terminal domain (CTD) are two regulatory mechanisms 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 …