Subcellular Distribution of Metformin in Rat Liver
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The subcellular localization of metformin was studied in livers of 18 h fasted rats treated orally with [14C]metformin 20 microCi kg-1, 50 mg kg-1. Sequential determination of 14C radioactivity showed that maximum concentrations of metformin in plasma (about 15 mumol L-1) and liver (about 50 mumol kg-1) were achieved at 30-60 min and approximately half-maximal concentration were achieved at 4 h. At 30 min and 4 h after administration of [14C]metformin, livers were removed and homogenized. Nuclear, mitochondrial and lysosomal, mixed membrane, and cytosolic fractions were separated by ultra-centrifugation. Distribution of 14C was similar at both time points, being greatest in the cytosolic fraction (78% of total radioactivity, and 60-69% of relative specific activity). Small amounts of 14C were associated with the other fractions. The total radioactivity and relative specific activity were respectively 2-3% and 7-8% in the nuclear fraction, 9-10% and 7-10% in the mitochondrial and lysosomal fraction, and 8-9% and 13-14% in the mixed membrane fraction. The higher concentration of metformin in liver compared with plasma suggests that metformin enters hepatocytes via a specific mechanism, and is distributed mainly within the cytosol.
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In Hepa1-6 cells exposed to 75 or 1000 μM metformin, no inhibitory effects were seen on activities of complex I-IV, and subcellular distribution indicated metformin remained primarily in the cytosol with mitochondrial levels less than 70 μM.
“even following exposure to 1000 μM, no inhibitory effects were seen on the activities of complex I-IV, and the subcellular distribution of metformin indicated that metformin remained primarily in the cytosol with levels in mitochondria less than 70 μM (139).”
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- Wilcock, C., Wyre, N. D., & Bailey, C. J.
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
- Keywords
- metformin, subcellular localization, liver, hepatocytes, cytosol, mitochondrial fraction, nuclear fraction, lysosomal fraction, oral administration, pharmacokinetics
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Liver, Male, Metformin, Rats, Inbred Strains, Subcellular Fractions, Rats
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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