ArticleDiabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy2018
Reexploring 5-methoxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (MICA) as a potential antidiabetic agent.
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- Discovery of a New Polymorph of 5-Methoxy-1Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, pyruvate oxidation, and acetylation-dependent mechanisms intersecting drug iatrogenesis.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021Review
- 5-Methoxyindole-2-Carboylic Acid (MICA) Fails to Retard Development and Progression of Type II Diabetes in ZSF1 Diabetic Rats.Reactive oxygen species (Apex, N.C.) · 2020Article
- Tegaserod for the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Anti-inflammatory & anti-allergy agents in medicinal chemistry · 2020Review
- Chronic Inhibition of Mitochondrial Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase (DLDH) as an Approach to Managing Diabetic Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
5-Methoxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (MICA) is a potent hypoglycemic agent that inhibits gluconeogenesis in the liver. It is also a well-known inhibitor of mitochondrial dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase. MICA was extensively studied in the 1960s and 1970s and was once tested for its antidiabetic effect in diabetic Chinese hamsters, whereby MICA was shown to exhibit pronounced glucose-lowering ability while also leading to increased rate of death of the diabetic animals. Since then, MICA's potential ability in lowering blood glucose in diabetes has never been revisited. In my opinion, MICA should be comprehensively reexplored for its antidiabetic properties in a variety of rodent diabetes models. For a given animal model, its dose-dependent effect and the effects of different routes of administrations as well as its synergistic effects with other glucose-lowering drugs should also be investigated. More studies in the future on this chemical may provide novel insights into its role as an antidiabetic agent.
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