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- Title
Acute antihyperglycemic mechanisms of metformin in NIDDM. Evidence for suppression of lipid oxidation and hepatic glucose production.
- Authors
Perriello, G; Misericordia, P; Volpi, E; Santucci, A; Santucci, C; Ferrannini, E; Ventura, M M; Santeusanio, F; Brunetti, P; Bolli, G B
- Abstract
To establish the antihyperglycemic mechanisms of metformin in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) independently of the long-term, aspecific effects of removal of glucotoxicity, 21 NIDDM subjects (14 obese, 7 nonobese) were studied on two separate occasions, with an isoglycemic (plasma glucose approximately 9 mM) hyperinsulinemic (two-step insulin infusion, 2 h each, at the rate of 4 and 40 mU.m-2.min-1) clamp combined with [3-3H]glucose infusion and indirect calorimetry, after administration of either metformin (500 mg per os, at -5 and -1 h before the clamp) or placebo. Compared with placebo, hepatic glucose production (HGP) decreased approximately 30% more after metformin (from 469 +/- 50 to 330 +/- 54 mumol/min), but glucose uptake did not increase. Metformin suppressed free fatty acids (FFAs) by approximately 17% (from 0.42 +/- 0.04 to 0.35 +/- 0.04 mM) and lipid oxidation by approximately 25% (from 4.5 +/- 0.4 to 3.4 +/- 0.4 mumol.kg-1.min-1) and increased glucose oxidation by approximately 16% (from 16.2 +/- 1.4 to 19.3 +/- 1.3 mumol.kg-1.min-1) compared with placebo (P < 0.05), but did not affect nonoxidative glucose metabolism, protein oxidation, or total energy expenditure. Suppression of FFA and lipid oxidation after metformin correlated with suppression of HGP (r = 0.70 and r = 0.51, P < 0.001). The effects of metformin in obese and nonobese subjects were no different. We conclude that the specific, antihyperglycemic effects of metformin in the clinical condition of hyperglycemia in NIDDM are primarily due to suppression of HGP, not stimulation of glucose uptake, and are mediated, at least in part, by suppression of FFA and lipid oxidation.
- Subjects
GLUCOSE metabolism; BLOOD sugar; CLINICAL trials; COMPARATIVE studies; DIABETES; FATTY acids; INSULIN; LIVER; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; METABOLISM; TYPE 2 diabetes; OBESITY; OXIDATION-reduction reaction; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research; BODY mass index; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; GLUCOSE clamp technique; METFORMIN; PHARMACODYNAMICS
- Publication
Diabetes, 1994, Vol 43, Issue 7, p920
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/diab.43.7.920