ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2022
Metformin Attenuates Cardiac Hypertrophy
Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Repurposing metformin for cardioprotection: mechanisms and therapeutic potential across cardiovascular pathologies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- HIF-mediated hierarchical hypoxic adaptation, a novel paradigm in heart failure pathogenesis: is there a role for targeted therapies?Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Metformin alleviates diastolic dysfunction in mice with experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology plus · 2025Article
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- Novel Molecules Targeting Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function in Cardiac Diseases.Current cardiology reviews · 2025Review
- Macrophages as determinants and regulators of systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- Biophysical interplay between extracellular matrix remodeling and hypoxia signaling in regulating cancer metastasis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiac hypertrophy (CH) are two main causes of ischemic heart disease. Acute CAD may lead to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Long-term and sustained CH is harmful and can gradually develop into cardiac insufficiency and heart failure. It is known that metformin (Met) can alleviate CH; however, the molecular mechanism is not fully understood. Herein, we used high-fat diet (HFD) rats and H9c2 cells to induce CH and clarify the potential mechanism of Met on CH. We found that Met treatment significantly decreased the cardiomyocyte size, reduced lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release, and downregulated the expressions of hypertrophy markers ANP, VEGF-A, and GLUT1 either
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