Berberine Attenuates Hyperglycemia by Inhibiting the Hepatic Glucagon Pathway in Diabetic Mice
Berberine Attenuates Hyperglycemia by Inhibiting the Hepatic Glucagon Pathway in Diabetic Mice
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小檗碱通过抑制糖尿病小鼠的肝胰高血糖素途径减轻高血糖
DOI:
10.1155/2020/6210526
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发表时间:
2020-01
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通讯作者:
Jiang Bijie
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作者:
Zhong Ying;Jin Jing;Liu Peiyu;Song Yu;Zhang Hui;Sheng Liang;Zhou Huifang;Jiang Bijie
Dysregulated glucagon drives hyperfunction in hepatic glucose output, which is the main cause of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes. Berberine (Zhang et al., 2010) has been used as a hypoglycemic agent, yet the mechanism by which BBR inhibits hepatic gluconeogenesis remains incompletely understood. In this study, we treated diabetic mice with BBR, tested blood glucose levels, and then performed insulin, glucose lactate, and glucagon tolerance tests. Intracellular cAMP levels in hepatocytes were determined by ELISA, hepatic gluconeogenetic genes were assayed by RT-qPCR, and the phosphorylation of CREB, which is the transcriptional factor controlling the expression of gluconeogenetic genes, was detected by western blot. BBR reduced blood glucose levels, improved insulin and glucose tolerance, and suppressed lactate- and glucagon-induced hepatic gluconeogenesis in ob/ob and STZ-induced diabetic mice. Importantly, BBR blunted glucagon-induced glucose production and gluconeogenic gene expression in hepatocytes, presumably through reducing cAMP, which resulted in the phosphorylation of CREB. By utilizing a cAMP analogue, adenylate cyclase (AC), to activate cAMP synthetase, and an inhibitor of the cAMP degradative enzyme, phosphodiesterase (PDE), we revealed that BBR accelerates intracellular cAMP degradation. BBR reduces the intracellular cAMP level by activating PDE, thus blocking activation of downstream CREB and eventually downregulating gluconeogenic genes to restrain hepatic glucose production.
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影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Bingjie Zhang;Yida Pan;Lei Xu;Dehua Tang;Robert Gregory Dorfman;Qian Zhou;Yuyao Yin;Yang Li;Lixing Zhou;Shimin Zhao;Xiaoping Zou;Lei Wang;Mingming Zhang
通讯作者:
Mingming Zhang
影响因子:
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作者:
Guo Y;Zhang Y;Huang W;Selwyn FP;Klaassen CD
通讯作者:
Klaassen CD
DOI:
10.1017/cbo9781139207249.009
发表时间:
2012
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影响因子:
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作者:
W. Marsden
通讯作者:
W. Marsden
影响因子:
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作者:
Li Y;Song J;Tong Y;Chung SK;Wong YH
通讯作者:
Wong YH
影响因子:
7.7
作者:
Rizza RA
通讯作者:
Rizza RA