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Effect of thymoquinone on vitamin D metabolism in glucocorticoid-induced insulin resistance
Hazel Berna Göktuğ1, Semiha Dede2
1Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Institute of Health Sciences, Van, Turkiye.
Objectives:
The key ingredient in Nigella sativa, thymoquinone (TQ), has several beneficial (antioxidant and anti-inflammatory) properties. This study aimed to investigate the vitamin D metabolism in insulin resistance and the effects of TQ.
Materials And Methods:
Male Wistar albino rats were used. TQ was administered as a therapy, and prophylaxis and treatment with metformin were set up for the groups in which insulin resistance had been developed. The gene groups implicated in vitamin D metabolism underwent RT-PCR gene expression analysis and western blot protein analysis.
Results:
The analysis shows that the application of TQ reduced HOMA-IR (a sign of insulin resistance). The expression of the VDR gene may be responsible for TQ's effect on treating insulin resistance.
Conclusion:
It has been demonstrated that using TQ for therapeutic and preventive reasons is advantageous for improving insulin resistance metrics. Serum vitamin D level was also found to be impacted, which was found to be directly related to the expression of several genes involved in vitamin D metabolism in the liver. However, some of these genes were found to be relatively ineffective in the present study.
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