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. 2021 Mar 30;12:630617. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.630617

TABLE 1.

Potential FoxO1 modulators and their effects in DKD.

Modulators Cellular targets Effects on FoxO1-mediated pathway and cell physiology Experimental model of DKD References
Puerarin ↑Sirt1 expression ↑PGC-1α/FoxO1 deacetylation ↓ROS ↑Mn-SOD and CAT activity T1D mice Xu et al. (2016)
Liraglutide ↓FoxO1 phosphorylation ↑FoxO1 activity ↑Mn - SOD expression ↓ECM production T2D rats Chen et al. (2018)
Resveratrol ↑Sirt1 activity ↑FoxO1 deacetylation ↑SOD activity ↓MDA expression ↓Col IV and FN expression T2D rats Hussein and Mahfouz (2016)
Atrasentan ↓miR-21 expression ↑FoxO1 expression Podocytes cultured in HG, T2D (KK-Ay) mice Wang et al. (2019a)
Progranulin ↑Sirt1 expression ↑PGC-1α/FoxO1 deacetylation ↓Mitophagy ↑Mitochondrial biogenesis Podocytes cultured in HG, T1D mice Zhou et al. (2019)
Metformin ↑AMPK/Sirt1 ↑FoxO1 activity ↓ROS ↑Autophagy ↓Cell proliferation Mesangial cells cultured in HG, T2D rats Ren et al. (2020)

T1D, type 1 diabetes; T2D, type 2 diabetes; Mn-SOD, manganese superoxide dismutase; CAT, catalase; SOD, superoxide dismutase; MDA, malondialdehyde; ROS, reactive oxygen species; Col, collagen; FN, fibronectin.