Recent studies from our laboratory have shown that the effects of vanadium are not due to a decrease in food intake and that while vanadium is deposited in bone it does not appear to affect bone strength or architecture. BMOV is 2-3x more potent than vanadyl sulfate and has shown less toxicity. One of these, bismaltolato-oxovanadium IV (BMOV), has shown promise as a therapeutic agent. Because vanadyl sulfate is not well absorbed we have synthesized and tested a number of organic vanadium compounds. We have also been able to demonstrate marked long-term effects of vanadyl sulfate in diabetic animals following treatment and withdrawal of vanadyl sulfate. It is also effective by the intraperitoneal route. Vanadyl sulfate is effective orally when administered by either single dose or chronic doses. In the BB diabetic rat, a model of insulin-dependent diabetes, vanadyl sulfate lowered the insulin requirement by up to 75%. Long-term studies of up to one year did not show toxicity in control or STZ rats administered vanadyl sulfate in doses that lowered elevated blood glucose. Subsequent studies have shown that vanadyl sulfate can lower elevated blood glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides in a variety of diabetic models including the STZ diabetic rat, the Zucker fatty rat and the Zucker diabetic fatty rat. We demonstrated in 1985 that vanadium administered in the drinking water to streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats restored elevated blood glucose to normal.
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