Searching across hundreds of databases

Our searching services are busy right now. Your search will reload in five seconds.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

Metformin Targets Mitochondrial Electron Transport to Reduce Air-Pollution-Induced Thrombosis.

Cell metabolism | 2019

Urban particulate matter air pollution induces the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6 (IL-6) from alveolar macrophages, resulting in an increase in thrombosis. Here, we report that metformin provides protection in this murine model. Treatment of mice with metformin or exposure of murine or human alveolar macrophages to metformin prevented the particulate matter-induced generation of complex III mitochondrial reactive oxygen species, which were necessary for the opening of calcium release-activated channels (CRAC) and release of IL-6. Targeted genetic deletion of electron transport or CRAC channels in alveolar macrophages in mice prevented particulate matter-induced acceleration of arterial thrombosis. These findings suggest metformin as a potential therapy to prevent some of the premature deaths attributable to air pollution exposure worldwide.

Pubmed ID: 30318339 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: CSRD VA, United States
    Id: I01 CX001777
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 ES013995
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 HL048129
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K08 HL125940
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL048129
  • Agency: NIAMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K01 AR066579
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R21 ES025644
  • Agency: NIAMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R03 AR061593
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM114210
  • Agency: BLRD VA, United States
    Id: I01 BX000201
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K08 HL128867
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P01 AG049665
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P01 HL071643
  • Agency: NIAMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AR064546
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS057499
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 CA060553
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 ES015024
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL128194
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 ES027792
  • Agency: NIEHS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 ES026718
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL124664
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL134375
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL085534
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL079190
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R56 HL135124
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R35 CA197532
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 HL076139

Publication data is provided by the National Library of Medicine ® and PubMed ®. Data is retrieved from PubMed ® on a weekly schedule. For terms and conditions see the National Library of Medicine Terms and Conditions.

This is a list of tools and resources that we have found mentioned in this publication.


European Molecular Biology Laboratory (tool)

RRID:SCR_004473

Intergovernmental organisation funded by public research money from its member states in Europe. Groups and laboratories perform basic research in molecular biology and molecular medicine, training for scientists, students and visitors. Provides development of services, new instruments and methods, data and technology in its member states.

View all literature mentions

Bioconductor (tool)

RRID:SCR_006442

Software repository for R packages related to analysis and comprehension of high throughput genomic data. Uses separate set of commands for installation of packages. Software project based on R programming language that provides tools for analysis and comprehension of high throughput genomic data.

View all literature mentions

GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool (tool)

RRID:SCR_006848

A tool for identifying and visualizing enriched GO terms in ranked lists of genes. It can be run in one of two modes: * Searching for enriched GO terms that appear densely at the top of a ranked list of genes or * Searching for enriched GO terms in a target list of genes compared to a background list of genes.

View all literature mentions

PE anti-human CD206 (MMR) (antibody)

RRID:AB_571911

This monoclonal targets CD206

View all literature mentions

APC anti-mouse CD24 (antibody)

RRID:AB_439716

This monoclonal targets CD24

View all literature mentions

BB515 Mouse Anti-Human CD45 (antibody)

RRID:AB_2732068

This monoclonal targets CD45

View all literature mentions

CD45 (antibody)

RRID:AB_394610

This monoclonal targets CD45

View all literature mentions

edgeR (software resource)

RRID:SCR_012802

Bioconductor software package for Empirical analysis of Digital Gene Expression data in R. Used for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq and digital gene expression data with biological replication.

View all literature mentions

HTSeq (software resource)

RRID:SCR_005514

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software Python package that provides infrastructure to process data from high-throughput sequencing assays. While the main purpose of HTSeq is to allow you to write your own analysis scripts, customized to your needs, there are also a couple of stand-alone scripts for common tasks that can be used without any Python knowledge.

View all literature mentions

TopHat (software resource)

RRID:SCR_013035

Software tool for fast and high throughput alignment of shotgun cDNA sequencing reads generated by transcriptomics technologies. Fast splice junction mapper for RNA-Seq reads. Aligns RNA-Seq reads to mammalian-sized genomes using ultra high-throughput short read aligner Bowtie, and then analyzes mapping results to identify splice junctions between exons.TopHat2 is accurate alignment of transcriptomes in presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions.

View all literature mentions

bcl2fastq (software processing resource)

RRID:SCR_015058

Conversion software that both demultiplexes data and converts BCL files generated by Illumina sequencing systems to standard FASTQ file formats for downstream analysis.

View all literature mentions

GraphPad Prism (software resource)

RRID:SCR_002798

Statistical analysis software that combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. Designed for biological research applications in pharmacology, physiology, and other biological fields for data analysis, hypothesis testing, and modeling.

View all literature mentions

FlowJo (software resource)

RRID:SCR_008520

Software for single-cell flow cytometry analysis. Its functions include management, display, manipulation, analysis and publication of the data stream produced by flow and mass cytometers.

View all literature mentions

C57BL/6J (organism)

RRID:IMSR_JAX:000664

Mus musculus with name C57BL/6J from IMSR.

View all literature mentions

B6.Cg-Tg(Itgax-cre)1-1Reiz/J (organism)

RRID:IMSR_JAX:008068

Mus musculus with name B6.Cg-Tg(Itgax-cre)1-1Reiz/J from IMSR.

View all literature mentions