title: Can targeting SIRT-1 to treat type 2 diabetes be a good strategy? A review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dysregulation of metabolic pathways, caused by imbalances in energy homeostasis, leads to type 2 diabetes characterized by high glucose concentration in the blood due to insulin resistance which is a major disorder in developed countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  One of the recent treatment strategies is using activators of SIRT1, which has been in clinical trials. Many of the cellular processes including insulin secretion, cell cycle, and apoptosis are imperatively regulated by a family of mediators called sirtuins. First known mammalian sirtuin, SIRT1 is a positive regulator of insulin secretion, which triggers glucose uptake and utilization. Since the past decade, a major outstanding question is whether SIRT1 activation is a safe therapy for human diseases such as type 2 diabetes? This review summarizes and discusses the advances of the past decade and the challenges that will brazen out perplexity about homeostasis and metabolic pathways linked to SIRT1 and type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, we described the interlink between SIRT1 metabolic pathways of various tissues such as pancreas, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue and liver.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  However be the complexity of the pathways involved, T2DM regulated by SIRT1 affected metabolism is dropping down progressively due to profound research. In the context of interlinking all the SIRT1 pathways in T2DM we found various crucial intermediaries in metabolic tissues, which can also be targeted for future prospects.
authors: Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Department of Pharmacy, Drug Discovery Research Laboratory, R.R. District-500078, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors: Venkat Koushik
authors: VK
authors: Pulla
authors: Madhu Babu
authors: MB
authors: Battu
authors: Mallika
authors: M
authors: Alvala
authors: Dharmarajan
authors: D
authors: Sriram
authors: Perumal
authors: P
authors: Yogeeswari
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D056564:Sirtuin 1 / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D056564:Sirtuin 1