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- Title
In vitro effects of Geranium graveolens, Sarcopoterium spinosum and Varthemia iphionoides extracts on pancreatic MIN6 proliferation and insulin secretion and on extrapancreatic glucose diffusion.
- Authors
Kasabri, Violet; Abu-Dahab, Rana; Afifi, Fatma; Naffa, Randa; Majdalawi, Lara; Shawash, Hazar
- Abstract
Geranium graveolens, Sarcopoterium spinosum and Varthemia iphionoides are utilized traditionally for diabetes ethnomedicine in Jordan. Their aqueous extracts (AE) for antidiabetic activity and mechanism of action were investigated in vitro. Insulin secretion and pancreatic proliferation as well as glucose diffusion in vitro bioassays were recruited. Similar to L-alanine, S. spinosum AE (0.01 and 0.5 mg/ml) potentiated acute glucose-stimulated Ca regulated insulin secretion in the clonal pancreatic β-cell line MIN6 (19.3 and 20.6 folds, P < 0.001). G. graveolens and V. iphionoides AEs were inactive. Comparable to GLP-1-enhanced β-cell proliferation, G. graveolens AE (0.01 and 0.05 mg/ml), S. spinosum (0.1 mg/ml) and V. iphionoides AEs (0.5 and 1 mg/ml) induced augmentations in pancreatic BrdU incorporation ( P < 0.05−0.001). Performing effectively as guar gum diffusional hindrance, all three plants' AE concentrations retarded 24 h glucose efflux into external solution across dialysis membrane ( P < 0.05−0.001). Conclusively β-cell mass expansion was augmented and carbohydrate absorption was reduced by all selected plants. Exceptionally, S. spinosum stimulated pancreatic insulin secretion.
- Subjects
TRADITIONAL medicine; GERANIUMS; SARCOPOTERIUM; INSULIN research; HYPOGLYCEMIC agents; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 3, p170
- ISSN
0973-3930
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13410-013-0131-5