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Metformin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes have normal mitochondrial complex I respiration
Ist Teil von
Diabetologia, 2012-02, Vol.55 (2), p.443-449
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Aims/hypothesis
The glucose-lowering drug metformin has been shown to inhibit complex I of the mitochondrial electron transport chain in skeletal muscle. To investigate this effect in vivo we studied skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiratory capacity and content from patients with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin (
n
= 14) or sulfonylurea (
n
= 8) and healthy control (
n
= 18) participants.
Methods
Mitochondrial respiratory capacity was measured ex vivo in permeabilised muscle fibres obtained from the vastus lateralis muscle of all participants. The respiratory response to in vitro titration with metformin was measured in controls. Citrate synthase (CS) activity, and fasting plasma glucose, insulin and HbA
1c
levels were measured and body composition was determined.
Results
Participants were matched for age, BMI and percentage body fat. Fasting plasma glucose concentrations were higher (
p
< 0.05) in those treated with sulfonylureas and metformin than in controls. CS activity was comparable between metformin-treated and control participants, but tended to be lower in those receiving sulfonylureas. Mitochondrial respiratory capacity with substrates for complex I and complex I and II was comparable in the groups, both when estimated per mg of tissue and when normalised to CS activity. In vitro metformin titration demonstrated a dose-dependent inhibitory effect on complex I and II in human skeletal muscle at suprapharmacological concentrations.
Conclusions/interpretation
Metformin treatment does not inhibit mitochondrial complex I respiration in the electron transport chain in human skeletal muscle of patients with type 2 diabetes when measured ex vivo. Inhibition of complex I and II respiration in controls was demonstrated by metformin titration in vitro at doses well above those observed during metformin treatment.