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. 2021 Jan 18;11:598012. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.598012

Table 2.

SIRT1 agonists and their respective roles in diabetic complications.

Approaches Diseases Mechanisms regulated Functions regulated References
Resveratrol DCM SIRT1/FOXO1/Rab7 Autophagy Wang et al. (10)
DCM Deacetylation of NF-κB-p65 and histone H3 Oxidative stress Bagul et al. (11)
DCM SIRT1/PGC‐1α Mitochondrial function Fang et al. (12)
DN SIRT1/PGC‐1α Mitochondrial oxidative stress Zhang et al. (79)
DN SIRT1/p53 Apoptosis Wang et al. (9)
DR SIRT1/MMP-9 Mitochondria damage Kowluru et al. (86)
SRT1460 Diet-induced obesity mice, Lepob/ob mice and male fatty Zucker rats SIRT1 Insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis Milne et al. (98)
SRT1720 Diet-induced obesity mice, Lepob/ob mice and male fatty Zucker rats SIRT1 Insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis Milne et al. (98)
SRT2183 Diet-induced obesity mice, Lepob/ob mice and male fatty Zucker rats SIRT1 Insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis Milne et al. (98)
Melatonin DCM SIRT1/PGC1-α Drp1-mediated mitochondrial fission Ding et al. (37)
DR LncRNA MEG3/miR‐204/SIRT1 Inflammation Tu et al. (97)
Salidroside DN SIRT1/PGC1-α Mitochondrial biogenesis Xue et al. (80)
Puerarin DN SIRT1/NOX4 Oxidative stress Li et al. (81)
Tangshen formula DN SIRT1/NF−κB Inflammation Du et al. (82)
Astragaloside IV DN SIRT1/NF−κB-p65 Autophagy Wang et al. (83)
Astragalus polysaccharide DR miR-204/SIRT1 ER stress and apoptosis Peng et al. (96)
Metformin DN SIRT1/FOXO1 Autophagy Xu et al. (84)
ALDH2 DR SIRT1/Nrf2 Oxidative stress He et al. (101)
1,25(OH)2D3 DCM PARP1/SIRT1/mTOR Cardiac dysfunction, hypertrophy and fibrosis Qu et al. (40)

SIRT1, Sirtuin 1; ALDH2, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2; 1,25(OH)2D3, 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3; DCM, diabetic cardiomyopathy; DN, diabetic nephropathy; DR, diabetic retinopathy; Lepob/ob, genetically obese mice; FOXO1, forkhead box O 1; Rab7, Ras-related protein Rab-7a; NF-κB, nuclear factor kappa B; PGC-1α, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 alpha; p53, tumor protein 53; MMP-9, matrix metalloproteinase 9; LncRNA MEG3, long non-coding RNA maternally expressed gene 3; miR, microRNA; NOX4, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase 4; Nrf2, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2; PARP1, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; Drp1, dynamin-related protein 1; ER, endoplasmic reticulum.