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An In Ovo Model for Testing Insulin-mimetic Compounds
Published on: April 23, 2018
Discovery and anti-diabetic effects of novel isoxazole based flavonoid derivatives
Jiang-Ping Nie1, Zhen-Ni Qu1, Ying Chen1
1School of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Key Laboratory on Technologies Enabling Development Clinical Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Theragnostic), Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
3-O-[(E)-4-(4-cyanophenyl)-2-oxobut-3-en-1-yl] kaempferol is a novel lead compound to discover anti-diabetic and anti-obesity drugs. The present study reported the scaffold hopping of the lead compound to obtain a new isoxazole derivative, C45, which has improved glucose consumption at the nanomolar level (EC50 = 0.8 nM) in insulin resistant (IR) HepG2 cells. Western blotting showed that C45 markedly enhanced the phosphorylation of AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) and reduced the levels of the gluconeogenesis key enzymes PEPCK (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase) and G6Pase (glucose 6-phosphatase) in HepG2 cells. The potential molecular mechanism of C45 may be activation of the AMPK/PEPCK/G6Pase pathways. We concluded that C45 might be a valuable candidate to discover anti-diabetic drugs.
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