• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.355-358
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• 1990

In order to investigate the cellular mechanisms of hypoglycemic of brazilin, hepatocyte monolayer culture was introduced and, glycogen synthesis rate and insulin binding were measured as parameters. Glycogen synthesis and insulin sensitivity were remarkably augmented by the treatment of brazilin. Brazilin slightely increased insulin binding. Scatchard analysis revealed that this increase in insulin binding was not due to increase in the binding capacity but in binding affinity. These results suggest that the augmentation of hepatic glycogenesis and insulin sensitivity by brazilin may play an important role in the improvement of hyperglycemia.

• BMB Reports
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.5-12
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• 2019

Organismal aging is accompanied by a host of progressive metabolic alterations and an accumulation of senescent cells, along with functional decline and the appearance of multiple diseases. This implies that the metabolic features of cell senescence may contribute to the organism's metabolic changes and be closely linked to age-associated diseases, especially metabolic syndromes. However, there is no clear understanding of senescent metabolic characteristics. Here, we review key metabolic features and regulators of cellular senescence, focusing on mitochondrial dysfunction and anabolic deregulation, and their link to other senescence phenotypes and aging. We further discuss the mechanistic involvement of the metabolic regulators mTOR, AMPK, and GSK3, proposing them as key metabolic switches for modulating senescence.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 1963

We have studied on the effects of Panax Ginseng on the carbohydrate metabolism of rat. Ginseng does not so much effect on the body weight of the nutrition diet groups, but effects much on the carbohydrate deficient diet groups; it remarkably inhibited the decrease of body weight. Liver glycogen, both in the nutrition and carbohycdrate deficient diet groups, is higher than that of the control. Particularly, the increase of the glycogen is eminent is the nutrition diet-ginseng administered group. In the nutrition diet group, the blood sugar level of ginseng-adminstered rats is the higher, while, in the carbohydrate deficient diet groups, the blood sugar level of ginseng-administered rats is decreased compared with that of control. the oxidation rate of glucose by rat liver slice indicates that only in the carbohydrate deficient diet groups, from the 6th to 15th hour, the oxidation rate of glucose in ginseng-administered group is increased, compared with that of the control. But there is no statistical significance between them. It is thought that Panax Ginseng would effect more on the enzyme system involved in gluconeogenesis and glycogenesis rather than that of carbohydrate oxidation.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.23-27
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• 1969

Plasma glucose levels before and after oral glucose administration have been compared in a group of 76 thyrotoxic subjects and a group of 8 normal control subjects in order to study the effect of glucose loading in thyrotoxicosis. Following were the results: 1. The mean fasting plasma glucose level was elevated in the thyrotoxic group(95.5mg%) compared to normal control group (88mg%). 2. The peak of glucose tolerance curve is at 30 minutes after glucose administration in both groups, but its mean value was 44mg% higher in thyrotoxic group than in control group. 3. The plasma glucose levels returned towards the fasting level in the later stage of the test more rapidly in thyrotoxic group than in control group. 4. 69.6% of oral glucose tolerance tests were impaired in the thyrotoxic group, and the occurance of abnormal glucose tolerance could be related to the degree of thyrotoxicity, sex and age. 5. The mechanisms of the impaired glucose tolerance in thyrotoxicosis are thought to be related to an increased rate of glucose absorption from gastrointestinal tract, abnormal liver function with decreased hepatic glycogenesis, increased glucose oxidation, decreased pancreatic release of insulin, and genetic relationship between diabetes and thyrotoxicosis.

• The Korean Journal of Pharmacology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.23-33
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• 1966

Hexachlorophene was reported previously to have a powerful parasiticidal effects on Clonorchis sinensis in vitro and in vivo, but the mechanism of its effect was not known. In the present report it was observed that there was an influence of hexachlorophene on the oxygen consumption, the glycolysis, the glycogenesis and the protein synthesis of C. sinensis. A hundred mg. of C. sinensis collected from the biliary tracts of the infested rabbits was incubated in 2 ml of K.R.P. medium with vavious concentration of hexachlorophene, $glucose-1-C^{14}$ and $glycine-1-C^{14}$ in a 25 ml incubation flask with central well. The oxygen consumption was observed by Warburg manometer, the glycogenolysis by measurement of radioactivities of extracted glycogen and protein from C. sinensis incubated with $C^{14}-glucose$ or$C^{14}-glycine$. 1) The oxygen consumption by C. sinensis was markedly inhibited during all stages of incubation in concentration of $10^{-4}$ and $10^{-5}g/ml$ of hexachlorophene, but in $10^{-6}$, slightly increased initially and gradually decreased after 3 hours of incubation. 2) Hexachlorophene inhibited the glycolysis by C. sincnsis markedly in the concentration of $10^{-4}$, $10^{-5}$, $10^{-6}$ and $10^{-7}g/ml$. 3) The protein synthesis by C. sinensis from glycine was inhibited in the concentration of $10^{-5}$, $10^{-6}$ and $10^{-7}g/ml$ of hexachlorophene. 4. The glycogen synthesis by C. sinensis in each concentration of $10^{-4}$, $10^{-5}$ and $10^{-6}g/ml$ of hexachlorophene was inhibited markedly. The speed of inhibition was more rapid in high concentration than in low, and in low concentration even the glycogen itself which had synthesized in their stage in their body was consumed in later stage. 5) The effects of oxygen consumption, glycolysis and glycogen synthesis were not influenced in the concentration of $10^{-5}g/ml$ of chloroquine phosphate, whereas hexachlorophene and dithiazanine inhibited markedly in same concentration, and the former was more potent than the latter.