Title : The antidiabetic drug metformin inhibits the proliferation of bladder cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.

Pub. Date : 2013 Dec 18

PMID : 24351837






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1 Metformin significantly inhibited the proliferation and colony formation of 5637 and T24 cells in vitro; specifically, metformin induced an apparent cell cycle arrest in G0/G1 phases, accompanied by a strong decrease of cyclin D1, cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4), E2F1 and an increase of p21waf-1. Metformin cyclin D1 Homo sapiens
2 Moreover, daily treatment of metformin led to a substantial inhibition of tumor growth in a xenograft model with concomitant decrease in the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), cyclin D1 and p-mTOR. Metformin cyclin D1 Homo sapiens