Although chronic therapy with metformin fails to achieve recovery from hyperglycemia, a key feature of diabetes in middle-aged diabetic mice, it improves hippocampal-dependent spatial memory functions accompanied by increased phosphorylation of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), atypical protein kinase C ζ (aPKC ζ), and insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1) at selective serine residues in the hippocampus.
Our study suggests that HD prevents the development of diabetes and improves renal function in the <i>db/db</i> mice and HD regulation of the IRS1-PI3K-GLUT signaling pathway significantly improves diabetic nephropathy.
Moreover, ER stress CHOP, GRP78 and ATF4 biomarkers level were significantly attenuated in PCr treated animals comparing to STZ diabetes associated liver-damage model with significant improving in insulin-resistance Akt and IRS-1.
Although the mechanisms underlying the regulation of IRS-1 in the nutrient-rich conditions associated with diabetes and insulin resistance have been well studied, those under nutrient-poor conditions remain unknown.