Metformin action through the microbiome and bile acids

Grace L. Guo; Wen Xie

doi:10.1038/s41591-018-0273-6

Metformin action through the microbiome and bile acids

Grace L. Guo, Wen Xie

Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology

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Abstract

Metformin functions through a gut microbiome–bile acid–farnesoid X receptor axis to lower glucose in type 2 diabetes, revealing a new therapeutic target in this disease.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1789-1790
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature medicine
Volume	24
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0273-6
State	Published - Dec 1 2018

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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