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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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Journal of ethnopharmacology [J Ethnopharmacol] 2011 Jan 27; Vol. 133 (2), pp. 931-3. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Nov 19. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- 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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br /> (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1872-7573
- Volume :
- 133
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of ethnopharmacology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21094236
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2010.11.019