Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
2016 , Vol 20 , Issue 2
A New Insight Into Metformin Action: Diabetes, Prostate Cancer, and Ion Channels
1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, 34134-Vezneciler, Istanbul, Turkey
DOI :
10.12991/mpj.20162014802
Diabetes Mellitus is a life-long chronic metabolic disease,
requiring continuous follow-up and therapy, it reduces the
quality of life of patients with acute and chronic complications,
mortality, and its economic burden is high. Cancer is the
second cause of death, according to the data from World Health
Organization. Prostate cancer is one of the most common
cancers in the developed world and the second leading cause
of male cancer-related death. As with the other cancer types,
metastasis is an essential problem that we are facing and it is not
clear whether a tumor will metastasize or not in localized state.
It has been reported that there are high levels of voltage-gated sodium channels in metastatic prostate cancer cases. Cancer,
ever growing with diabetes, is a major health problem. Studies
have shown that diabetic patients have higher cancer rates than
those of non-diabetics. Metformin is the drug of choice for the
treatment of diabetes. Recently, there are studies in the literature
regarding metformin reducing the risk of cancer besides its
effect on diabetes This review will explain the possible role of
the metformın on the three dimensional relationship of prostate
cancer, diabetes and ion channels, and provide a significant
contribution to clinical trials.
Keywords :
Cancer, experimental diabetes, metformin, voltagegated sodium channel, MAT-Lylu cells