Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To study using metformin to prevent and treat body weight increasing, sugar lipid metabolic disorder and liver lipid deposition which are caused by sulpiride or risperidone in rats. METHODS From 1 d to 4 d, sulpiride 25 mg·kg
-1·d
-1 or isperidone 0.05 mg·kg
-1·d
-1 was gavaged; and from the 5th day, sulpiride 50 mg·kg
-1·d
-1 or isperidone 0.1 mg·kg
-1·d
-1 was gavaged; from 15th day, metformin 100 mg·kg
-1·d
-1 was added. The total period of dosing was 8 weeks. weight, fasting blood sugar(FBS) and postprandial 2 hours blood glucose(2hPBG) were measured at inbaseline, 3 d, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th week. At the end of 8th week, serum cholesterol(TC), triglyceride(TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL-C), high density lipoprotein(HDL-C), fructosamine(FA) and insulin(IRS) were measured, and HE staining in rat livers. RESULTS Compared with normal control group, all the indicators in metformin group had no significant statistical difference. At 6th and 8th week, rats weight, 2hPBG, INS and FA in sulpiride group or risperidone group were higher than normal control group(P<0.05), rat weight, 2 HPBG, INS and FA in sulpiride+metformin group or rispidone+metformin group were lower than sulpiride group or rispidone group(P<0.05). At the end of 8th week, TC, TG and HDL-C in sulpiride group or risperidone group were higher than normal control group(P<0.05), LDL-C was lower(P<0.05); TC, TG and HDL-C in sulpiride+metformin group or risperidone+metformin group were lower than sulpiride and risperidone group(P<0.05), LDL-C were higher(P<0.05). Liver HE staining pathologic examination showed that compared with normal control group, rat liver cells in sulpiride group and risperidone group arrangement were not neat, around the small blood vessels, there were more white fat cells and hepatocellular lipid calm far away from the blood vessels; sulpiride+metformin group and risperidone+metformin group had normal liver cells, there were moderate white fat cells, and there were not much hepatocellular lipid calm far away from the blood vessels. CONCLUSION Antipsychotics sulpiride and risperidone result in weight gain and glucolipid metabolic disorder in rats, just as clinical observation report, metformin effectively prevent and treat weight gain and glucolipid metabolic disorder, which are caused by sulpiride and risperidone.