Anti-cancer effects of metformin: recent evidences for its role in prevention and treatment of cancer

M Kheirandish, H Mahboobi… - Current Drug …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Metformin is widely used for management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).
Recently growing evidences have shown its anti-cancer effects. The results are mainly from …

Repurposed biguanide drugs in glioblastoma exert antiproliferative effects via the inhibition of intracellular chloride channel 1 activity

F Barbieri, I Verduci, V Carlini, G Zona… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The lack of in-depth knowledge about the molecular determinants of glioblastoma (GBM)
occurrence and progression, combined with few effective and BBB crossing-targeted …

Melatonin attenuates aortic oxidative stress injury and apoptosis in STZ-diabetes rats by Notch1/Hes1 pathway

BC Ren, W Zhang, W Zhang, JX Ma, F Pei… - The Journal of Steroid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oxidative stress injury is an important link in the pathogenesis of diabetes, and reducing
oxidative stress damage caused by long-term hyperglycemia is an important diabetic …

Development and validation of a radiogenomics model to predict axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer integrating MRI with transcriptome data: A …

H Chen, X Lan, T Yu, L Li, S Tang, S Liu, F Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction To develop and validate a radiogenomics model for predicting axillary lymph
node metastasis (ALNM) in breast cancer compared to a genomics and radiomics model …

High glucose induces epithelial‑mesenchymal transition and results in the migration and invasion of colorectal cancer cells

J Wu, J Chen, Y Xi, F Wang, H Sha… - Experimental and …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC).
Hyperglycemia, a chronic abnormality in diabetes, is an independent predictor of cancer …

Autophagy-induced degradation of Notch1, achieved through intermittent fasting, may promote beta cell neogenesis: implications for reversal of type 2 diabetes

JJ DiNicolantonio, M McCarty - Open Heart, 2019 - openheart.bmj.com
INTERMITTENT FASTING BOOSTS NEUROGENIN-3 (NGN3) EXPRESSION AND BETA
CELL NEOGENESIS Several recent studies have found that repeated episodes of fasting (or …

Up-regulation of miR-139-5p protects diabetic mice from liver tissue damage and oxidative stress through inhibiting Notch signaling pathway

H Wei, L Huang, F Wei, G Li, B Huang… - Acta Biochimica et …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The occurrence and development of diabetes seriously threaten the health of patients.
Therefore, the mechanism exploration of diabetes is of great significance for more effective …

[HTML][HTML] Intravitreal Metformin Protects Against Choroidal Neovascularization and Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration

JF Xiao, W Luo, A Mani, H Barba, A Solanki… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), a leading cause of blindness in
older adults, presents a challenging pathophysiology involving choroidal neovascularization …

Metformin and primary bone cancer risk in Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

CH Tseng - Bone, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The effect of metformin on primary bone cancer risk has not been researched.
This retrospective cohort study investigated the risk of primary bone cancer between …

Low-Dose Metformin Treatment Reduces In Vitro Growth of the LL/2 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Line

NLS Bond, D Dréau, I Marriott, JM Bennett, MJ Turner… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer maintains a relatively small survival rate (~ 19%) over a 5-year period and up to
80–85% of all lung cancer diagnoses are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). To …