Table 1 Anti-diabetic activity of PSTi8 on the basis of AUC in different animal models during GTT, ITT and PTT after acute and chronic treatment.

From: Discovery of pancreastatin inhibitor PSTi8 for the treatment of insulin resistance and diabetes: studies in rodent models of diabetes mellitus

Phenotyping screening

Glucose tolerance test

Insulin tolerance test

Pyruvate tolerance test

Treatment

saline

Acute PSTi8

Chronic PSTi8

saline

Acute PSTi8

Chronic PSTi8

Saline

Acute PSTi8

Chronic PSTi8

Mice model

HFD (N = 6)

69980 ± 3317 mg/dL × min

56611 ± 2847 mg/dL × min, **α

30083 ± 3353 mg/dL × min, ***β, ***δ

29109 ± 820 mg/dL × min

25839 ± 546 mg/dL × min, **α

(16410 ± 1215 mg/dL × min, **β, ***δ

58582 ± 2019 mg/dL × min

51131 ± 612 mg/dL × min, *α

43481 ± 1856 mg/dL × min, **β, **δ

HFrD (N = 6)

62870 ± 822 mg/dL × min

38997 ± 581 mg/dL × min,***α

31023 ± 875 mg/dL × min, ***β, ***δ

23605 ± 1466 mg/dL × min

(18413 ± 480 mg/dL × min, **α

14608 ± 392 mg/dL × min, ***β, ***δ

38767 ± 3020 mg/dL × min

31142 ± 5926 mg/dL × min, *α

25323.8 ± 1492.98 mg/dL × min, *β, **δ

db/db (N = 6)

59271 ± 1750 mg/dL × min

38967 ± 3204 mg/dL × min, ***α

29356 ± 2101 mg/dL × min, *β, ***δ

29307 ± 2394 mg/dL × min

19983 ± 1004 mg/dL × min, *α

13832 ± 993 mg/dL × min, **β, ***δ

42401 ± 8387 mg/dL × min

21360 ± 1008 mg/dL × min, *α

17025 ± 1119 mg/dL × min, **β, *δ

  1. (N = 6, mean ± s.e.m), α, saline vs acute PSTi8; β, saline vs chronic PSTi8 and δ, acute PSTi8 vs chronic PSTi8 *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.