Title : Mitochondrial metabolism and type-2 diabetes: a specific target of metformin.

Pub. Date : 2003 Sep

PMID : 14502105






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1 Metformin is a mild inhibitor of respiratory chain complex 1; it activates AMPK in several models, apparently independently of changes in the AMP-to-ATP ratio; it activates G6PDH in a model of high-fat related insulin resistance; and it has antioxidant properties by a mechanism (s), which is (are) not completely elucidated as yet. Metformin glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Homo sapiens