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Objective: Organic Cation Transporter 1 (OCT1) plays a key role in the disposition of metformin in hepatocytes; a recent non-clinical study reported that the peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor γ agonist pioglitazone increased the expression of Slc22a1 (Oct1) by 3.1-fold as well as its transporting function. We therefore evaluated the effect of pioglitazone on the glucose-lowering effect of metformin in 15 human participants using the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and measuring the mRNA levels of OCT1, as well as those of Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT 1) and GLUT4, which are also important in glucose utilization, in peripheral blood cells.