Effects of Dehydroepiandrosterone on Gluconeogenic Enzymes and Glucose Uptake in Human Hepatoma Cell Line, HepG2

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), the most abundant human adrenal steroid, improves insulin sensitivity and obesity in human and model animals. In a previous study, we reported that orally administered DHEA suppresses the elevated activities of hepatic gluconeogenic enzymes like glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) in C57BL/KsJ-db/db mice (Aoki K, Saito T, Satoh S, Mukasa K, Kaneshiro M, Kawasaki S, Okamura A, Sekihara H (1999) Diabetes 48: 1579–1585)....