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ArticleBiomedicines2023

Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Metformin Inhibits Femoral Artery Ultrastructural Alterations as well as Vascular Tissue Levels of AGEs/ET-1 Axis-Mediated Inflammation and Modulation of Vascular iNOS and eNOS Expression.

Ayed A Shati, Amro Maarouf, Amal F Dawood, Nervana M Bayoumy, Youssef A Alqahtani, Refaat A Eid, Saeed M Alqahtani, Mohamed Abd Ellatif, Bahjat Al-Ani, Alia Albawardi

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Article in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Ayed A ShatiDepartment of Child Health, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0444-5595
Amro MaaroufDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK.
Amal F DawoodDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7646-0909
Nervana M BayoumyDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia.
Youssef A AlqahtaniDepartment of Child Health, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
Refaat A EidDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5633-9562
Saeed M AlqahtaniDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Abd EllatifDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
Bahjat Al-AniDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
Alia AlbawardiDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-0815-3891

Funding

Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2023R110)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) is a major risk factor for amputation in diabetic patients. The advanced glycation end products (AGEs)/endothelin-1 (ET-1)/nitric oxide synthase (NOS) axis-mediated femoral artery injury with and without metformin has not been previously investigated. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was established in rats, with another group of rats treated for two weeks with 200 mg/kg metformin, before being induced with T2DM. The latter cohort were continued on metformin until they were sacrificed at week 12. Femoral artery injury was established in the diabetic group as demonstrated by substantial alterations to the femoral artery ultrastructure, which importantly were ameliorated by metformin. In addition, diabetes caused a significant (

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AGEsdiabetesdyslipidemiaET-1femoral arteryinflammationmetforminNOS

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PMID36830898
PMCPMC9953164

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