Metformin and intermittent fasting mitigate high fat-fructose diet-induced liver and skeletal muscle injury through upregulation of mitophagy genes in rats

Autor: Nermeen Bastawy, Ghada Farouk Soliman, Nermeen Bakr Sadek, Doaa Mostafa Gharib, Mai Abdelaziz Gouda, Laila Ahmed Rashed, Hanan Abdallah, Dina Hisham, Omnia Mohamed Abdel-Maksoud
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2314-8543
DOI: 10.1186/s43088-024-00548-z
Popis: Abstract Background High fat-fructose diet is a proinflammatory diet that increases risk of hepatocytes and myocytes steatosis and fibrosis. Finding anti-inflammatory strategies to fight these harmful effects is paid attention to nowadays. This study compared the effects of two widely anti-inflammatory interventions—metformin and intermittent fasting on myocytes and hepatocyte injury induced by proinflammatory diet and tracking possible underlying mechanisms. In this work, rats fed high fat-fructose diet were subdivided into untreated group, treated by metformin, and/or intermittent fasting. Results Metformin (300 mg/kg/day) and intermittent fasting (3 days/week) specially their combination for 4 weeks showed significant improvement in insulin resistance, lipid profile, antioxidants (p
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