Synthesis, structural properties and insulin-enhancing potential of bis(quercetinato)oxovanadium(IV) conjugate

Ruchi Shukla, Vivek Barve, Subhash Padhye, Ramesh Bhonde

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Abstract

Vanadium complex of naturally occurring flavonoid, quercetin, is structurally characterized and evaluated for its insulin-enhancing potential, which indicates it to be a potent oral insulin-enhancing agent of therapeutic value having hypoglycemic and mitogenic activity in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. An oxovanadium complex of quercetin (2), exhibits highly potent insulin-enhancing activity in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice. It also mimics mitogenic potential of insulin as evaluated by [H 3]thymidine uptake assay making an effective, orally active insulin-enhancing agent for the treatment of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes without any noticeable toxic effects.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4961-4965
Number of pages5
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume14
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Oct 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Diabetes
  • Insulin mimic
  • Quercetin
  • Vanadium complex

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