The effects of resveratrol supplementation on PPARα, p16, p53, p21 gene expressions, and sCD163/sTWEAK ratio in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A double-blind controlled randomized trial.

Omid Toupchian, Shima Abdollahi, Amin Salehi-Abargouei, Javad Heshmati, Cain C T Clark, Mohammad Hasan Sheikhha, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi

Journal: Phytotherapy research : PTR 2021;35(6):3205-3213

PMID: 33580595

Abstract

The present study sought to evaluate the effect of resveratrol supplementation on mRNA expression levels of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα), p53, p21, p16, and serum levels of cluster of differentiation 163 (CD163) to TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) ratio in patients with type 2 diabetes. In this double-blind randomized controlled trial, 71 patients were randomly assigned to receive either 1,000 mg of trans-resveratrol or placebo (methyl cellulose) for 8 weeks. Expression levels of genes of interest, and serum levels of sCD163 and sTWEAK were assessed at baseline and at the end of the study. Resveratrol supplementation significantly increased mRNA expression levels of p53 and p21 genes, compared with the placebo group (fold change of p53 = 1.29, p = .04; fold change of p21 = 1.46, p = .006). However, no significant effect on expression levels of PPARα and p16 genes was observed after supplementation. In addition, resveratrol significantly reduced serum levels of sCD163/sTWEAK ratio compared with the placebo group (p = .003). Resveratrol supplementation resulted in significant changes in p53 and p21 genes expression, while serum levels of sCD163/sTWEAK ratio also improved in the resveratrol group, without any significant change in adjusted sCD163 levels. More research is needed to confirm the beneficial effects of resveratrol for patients with diabetes.

© 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Address: Department of Nutrition and Public Health, School of Public Health, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.; Department of Nutrition and Public Health, School of Public Health, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.; Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Department of Nutritional Science, School of Nutritional Science and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.; Centre for Intelligent Healthcare, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Yazd Clinical and Research Center for Infertility, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Center of Prevention and Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.; Yazd Diabetic Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
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