scholarly journals In -Vivo Anti-Diabetic Activity of Hydro-Ethanolic Seed Extract of Syzygium Cumini (L.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-247
Author(s):  
Meharban Asanaliyar ◽  
Pratibha Nadig

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus continues to be a major health problem in India and across the world. Over centuries, numerous herbal extracts have been used in the Indian traditional medicine to control elevated blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes. Different aqueous and organic extracts of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels have found widespread use owing to their anti-diabetic activity. A systematic study was undertaken to characterise and evaluate the effects of a hydro-ethanolic seed extract (SCE) of Syzygium cumini in a rodent model of experimental type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: An established model of diabetes mellitus with a combination of streptozotocin and high fat diet (over 12 weeks) in adult male Wistar albino rats, was used in this study. The onset of diabetes mellitus in rats was confirmed with a fasting blood glucose (FBG) of >200 mg/dl. The diabetic rats were allocated into five experimental groups and treated as follows: with vehicle alone, pioglitazone (10 mg/kg), 100mg/kg or 200mg/kg or 400 mg/kg of SCE, respectively for 21 days. The pre and post treatment levels of fasting blood glucose, insulin and lipids were measured from serum obtained from the various treatment groups. In order to measure insulin resistance, a homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA IR) and for measuring the beta cell function a homeostasis model assessment were employed. The results obtained from these studies were analysed using the Analysis of variance (ANOVA) method. Results: Our study demonstrates the SCE preparation to induce a statistically significant dose-dependent reduction in FBG, serum lipid levels and HOMA IR with a concomitant increase in the serum insulin levels and HOMA B. Conclusions: Wistar rats dosed with SCE at 100 and 200 mg/kg body weight demonstrated statistically significant anti-diabetic activity by virtue of improving the pancreatic beta cell function and reduction in insulin resistance.

Marine Drugs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanwen Wang ◽  
Jacques Gagnon ◽  
Sandhya Nair ◽  
Shelly Sha

Protein consumption influences glucose homeostasis, but the effect depends on the type and origin of proteins ingested. The present study was designed to determine the effect of herring milt protein hydrolysate (HPH) on insulin function and glucose metabolism in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity. Male C57BL/6J mice were pretreated with a low-fat diet or a high-fat diet for 6 weeks. Mice on the high-fat diet were divided into four groups where one group continued on the high-fat diet and the other three groups were fed a modified high-fat diet where 15%, 35%, and 70%, respectively, of casein was replaced with an equal percentage of protein derived from HPH. After 10 weeks, mice that continued on the high-fat diet showed significant increases in body weight, blood glucose, insulin, and leptin levels and exhibited impaired oral glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, and pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. Compared to mice fed the high-fat diet, the 70% replacement of dietary casein with HPH protein reduced body weight, semi-fasting blood glucose, fasting blood glucose, insulin, leptin, and cholesterol levels and improved glucose tolerance, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), and homeostasis model assessment of β-cell function (HOMA-β) indices. The 35% replacement of dietary casein with HPH protein showed moderate effects, while the 15% replacement of dietary casein with HPH protein had no effects. This is the first study demonstrating that replacing dietary casein with the same amount of protein derived from HPH can prevent high-fat-diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohan Tang ◽  
Xiang Yan ◽  
Houde Zhou ◽  
Gan Huang ◽  
Xiaohong Niu ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Abnormal lipids are strong predictive factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in both type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the potential associations of insulin resistance (IR) and beta cell function (BCF) in diabetes and abnormal lipids, i.e. high triglyceride (TG), low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) are not fully understood. In this study, we aim to explore whether decreased BCF and increased IR in newly diagnosed T1DM or T2DM are associated with abnormal lipids.Methods: Clinical and laboratory data were collected from 16334 adults with newly diagnosed diabetes in this cross-sectional study. Types of diabetes were diagnosed based on clinical characteristics and diabetes-related biochemical measurement results. Homeostasis model assessment were used to estimate IR and BCF. Restricted cubic spline and binary logistic regression were used to examine the associations of IR or BCF and abnormal lipids in T1DM and T2DM, respectively. Results: High TG, low HDL-C and high LDL-C accounted for 49.7%, 47.7% and 59.2%, respectively. In multivariable analysis, high IR was associated with increased risk of high TG (Odds ratios (ORs) of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA2-IR) ≥2, ≥1-<2 vs <1: 4.77, 95% CI 2.69-8.57; 2.31, 95% CI 1.54-3.47, p for trend < 0.001) in T1DM and was associated with elevated risk of high TG, low HDL-C and high LDL-C (all p for trend <0.01) in T2DM. Low BCF, i.e., homeostasis model assessment of beta-cell function (HOMA2-B) <30 versus ≥30, was associated with marginally increased risk of high TG (OR 1.42, 95% CI 0.98-2.10, p = 0.07) in T1DM and associated with increased risk of high TG (OR 1.21, 95% CI 1.09-1.34, p <0.001) and high LDL-C (OR 1.23, 95% CI 1.12-1.36, p <0.001) in T2DM.Conclusions: In patients with newly diagnosed diabetes, high IR and low BCF had different associations with risk of dyslipidemia in T1DM and T2DM, suggesting that early treatment that improve IR or BCF may have a benefit for abnormal lipid metabolism.


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Bayu Winata Putera ◽  
Cynthia Retna Sartika ◽  
Andi Wijaya

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a major health problem in the world today. Obesity is closely associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Epidemiological studies have shown that obese persons are in a state of insulin resistance, however, most of them do not progress to type 2 diabetes. This occurs because the beta cell function is still good enough for maintaining normal glucose level. Obestatin and visfatin are cytokines that are known to have a role in beta cell function. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between visfatin and obestatin and Homeostasis Model Assessment of beta cell function (HOMA-β) and Homeostasis Model Assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR).METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study involving 80 central obesity men with waist circumference >90 cm, age 30-65 years old. Visfatin and obestatin were measured by ELISA method. Beta pancreas cell dysfunction and insulin resistance were calculated by HOMA model.RESULTS: Our study showed a correlation between visfatin and HOMA-β (r=0.244 and p = 0.029) and visfatin with HOMA-IR (r=0.287 and p=0.001) and no correlation was found between obestatin with HOMA-β (r=0.010 and p=0.990) and obestatin with HOMA-IR (r=0.080 and p=0.480). We also found visfatin and obestatin concentrations were fluctuative depending on the measurements of the waist circumferences.CONCLUSIONS: High visfatin and low obestatin concentration were independently associated with increased beta pancreas cell dysfunction and insulin resistance.KEYWORDS: obesity. visfatin, obestatin, beta cell dysfunction (HOMA-β), insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)


Author(s):  
Shaheen Bhatty ◽  
Syed Muhammad Kashif ◽  
Mohammad Nashit ◽  
Faiza Zafar Sayeed ◽  
Fariha Asad

Objective: To compare insulin resistance and beta-cell function in nondiabetic, prediabetic, and diabetic subjects in a subset of obese Pakistani population. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and ten obese subjects underwent anthropometric measurements. After overnight fasting for 8 hours, 6 cc blood was drawn for fasting blood glucose level, fasting insulin level. Blood glucose samples were taken after drinking 75 gm glucose in 260 ml water. HOMA IR and HOMA BETA% were calculated by the formula. Subjects were divided into obese nondiabetic, obese prediabetic and obese diabetic according to WHO criteria. Results: Out of 210 obese subjects, 53 (25.2%) were males and 157 (74.8%) were females. The mean BMI was 32.39±5.21. Mean abdominal circumference was 102.78±10.16. There were 101(48%) obese nondiabetic, 51(24%) were found to be obese prediabetic, 58(28%) were found to be obese diabetic. Mean insulin resistance in obese nondiabetic subjects was 2.8 ±3.7, in prediabetic 8.5± 12.3, in diabetic was 17.7±24.6. Mean HOMA beta was 245.3±267.4 in obese nondiabetic subjects, 290.5±298.4 in prediabetic, and 16.6±57 in diabetic. Conclusion: There was a significantly increased incidence of prediabetes and diabetes in obese subjects. Prediabetic and diabetic subjects were found to have marked insulin resistance. Beta-cell function was markedly reduced in diabetic subjects having a family history of diabetes, emphasizing the genetic predisposition to develop beta-cell exhaustion.


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