Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of metabolic effects of means applied in treatment of type 2 diabetes and its complications

Abstract

The growing distribution of conditions associated with metabolic disorders (obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) requires the use of pharmacological agents that contribute to the correction of these disorders, which is the task of a current trend in medicine — metabolic therapy. Today a new level has been reached in understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the action of antidiabetics, which cause epigenetic modifications of the activity of key genes, metabolic regulators. In particular, it has been proved that many effects of pharmacological drugs widely used in diabetes mellitus such as metformin, alpha-lipoic acid, meldonium (trimetazidine) are carried out at the level of regulation of the activity of a number of genes that play a role in key metabolic processes, contributing to the optimization of disturbed metabolic processes.