1. Treatment of high fat diet induced type 2 diabetes in C57BL/6J mice by two medicinal plants used in traditional treatment of diabetes in the east of Algeria.
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Hamza N, Berke B, Cheze C, Le Garrec R, Lassalle R, Agli AN, Robinson P, Gin H, and Moore N
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- Algeria, Animals, Blood Glucose metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 blood, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 etiology, Dietary Fats administration & dosage, Ethnopharmacology, Hypoglycemic Agents isolation & purification, Insulin blood, Lipids blood, Male, Medicine, African Traditional, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Plant Extracts pharmacology, Plants, Medicinal, Artemisia, Centaurium, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 drug therapy, Hypoglycemic Agents pharmacology, Phytotherapy
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Aim of the Study: Hydro-alcoholic extracts of Centaurium erythraea Rafn (CE), Gentianaceae and Artemisia herba-alba Asso (AHA), Asteraceae, medicinal plants used in traditional treatment of diabetes in north-eastern Algeria, were tested in established type 2 diabetes induced with a standardized high fat diet (HFD) in mice., Materials and Methods: After confirmation of diabetes (17th week), plant extracts were administered orally by gavage at a dose of 2 g/kg daily for 18 weeks to male C57BL/6J mice fed HFD. Animals were weighed, food intake and plasma glucose measured weekly, insulin and lipid profile at study end., Results: At 35 weeks, groups treated with AHA or CE vs. HFD control had a significant reduction in mean (±SD) fasting blood glucose concentrations (143.8±23.9 and 139.5±14.2 vs. 229.0±20.8 mg/dL, p<0.05, respectively), triglyceride (18.9±11.1 and 16.0±6.5 vs. 62.8±18.3 mg/dL, p<0.05), total cholesterol (1.2±0.1 and 1.2±0.3 vs. 1.8±1.1 g/L, p<0.05) and serum insulin concentrations (1.7±0.7 and 0.9±0.7 vs. 3.3±14.3 ng/mL, p<0.05). Plant extracts also markedly reduced insulin resistance as compared to HFD controls (AHA: 15.6±9.1, CE: 9.0±7.7 vs. HFD control 38.5±30.3, p<0.05). The plant extracts decreased calorie intake and had little effect on body weight or HDL-cholesterol., Conclusion: AHA has already been shown to have a antihyperglycaemic and antihyperlipidemic effect but this is the first demonstration of an effect of AHA and CE on established HFD-induced diabetes., (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2011
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