homeostasis/metabolism
• after 5 days of i.p. metformin treatment (50 mg/kg each day), mutant mice fed a high-fat diet for 8 weeks fail to show any significant changes in 18-hour fasting plasma glucose levels, unlike similarly treated wild-type controls where fasting plasma glucose levels are reduced by >30%
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• in culture, metformin (1 mM) fails to significantly lower glucagon-stimulated glucose production in primary mouse hepatocytes, unlike in wild-type hepatocytes where glucose production is reduced by 30%
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• metformin's therapeutic effect of lowering fasting plasma glucose levels is completely abolished in mutant mice fed a high-fat diet, unlike in similarly treated wild-type controls
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• in culture, primary mouse hepatocytes show a 3.4-fold decrease in metformin uptake and significantly less metformin-stimulated phosphorylation of both AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC, an AMPK target) than wild-type hepatocytes
• at 1 hour after a single oral dose (15 mg/kg) of metformin, mutant mice show normal plasma metformin levels but significantly (4.2-fold) less hepatic metformin accumulation than age-matched wild-type controls
• following a daily i.p. dose of metformin (50 mg/kg) for 3 days, mutant mice show significantly less hepatic phosphorylation of AMPK and ACC than age-matched wild-type controls
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