Insulin
Anti-diabetic Drug
Long-Acting Insulin Works Best for Many Diabetics...may be the only effective way of doing this," explained lead researcher Dr. Rury Holman, a professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Oxford. "The vast majority will need insulin in the longer term." The report is published in the... In this article: Insulin, New England Journal of Medicine, University of Oxford, Novo Nordisk, and Diabetics |
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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | October 24, 2009
Study Finds Best Use Of Insulin As Diabetes Progresses
...of the final trial results at the World Diabetes Congress in Montreal, Canada. Patients who added insulin, either through once-a-day (basal) insulin injections or three injections at mealtimes, to their oral anti-diabetes drugs showed...
In this article: Diabetes, University of Oxford, Heart failure, Sugar, Type 2 diabetes, Glucose, UCLA, British Medical Journal, and Diabetes UK
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The Hindu - News | February 23, 2009
New drug discovery tool to treat diabetes
...tool to treat diabetes London (IANS): Scientists have harnessed a new drug discovery tool to identify a player in our insulin secretion process, which could spur a new class of drugs to treat type-2 diabetes. Oxford University...
In this article: Nature Chemical Biology, ZINC Database, Oxford University, Naadp, Southampton, and London
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www.washingtonpost.com | June 25, 2007
Home Blood Sugar Monitoring Questioned
"We wanted to investigate a current controversy, which is whether monitoring blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes, who are not using insulin, is helpful or not," explained lead researcher Dr. Andrew Farmer, a lecturer in the Department...
In this article: Glucose, American Diabetes Association, University of Oxford, Medical journal, and Chicago
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New Kerala | February 23, 2009
Novel approach may provide new class of diabetes drugs
...researchers have developed a cheap and efficient drug discovery method that can be helpful in identifying a new player in the body's insulin secretion process. The researchers say that the new approach may allow small academic labs to...
In this article: Naadp, ZINC Database, Nature Chemical Biology, University of Oxford, Histamine, and Nature magazine
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PR Newswire | August 29, 2007
Anesiva Grants Specific-Use License of Its Needle-Free Drug Delivery Technology to Particle Therapeutics for Diabetes Drug
...patient with severe hypoglycemia. Other applications of Particle Therapeutics' technology may include the delivery of insulin in a selected group of patients with diabetes and other conditions. For more information on Particle...
In this article: Hypoglycemia, Lidocaine, Peptide, FDA, Safe harbor, Revenue, University of Oxford, and Hydrochloride
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Telegraph.co.uk - Earth | June 18, 2008
Scientists use 'biological alchemy' to convert one cell type into another
...which make up to 95 per cent of the pancreas, and converted them directly into another cell type, called beta cells, which make the hormone insulin to control blood sugar levels. Although there is a long way to go to show that this could be...
In this article: Ian Wilmut, New Scientist, Kyoto University, Oxford University, Edinburgh University, Cancer, Parkinson's disease, and Hormone
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Tight Blood Sugar Control Helps Diabetics Long-Term
For the first study, more than 4,200 patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to either a restricted diet aimed at improving blood sugar or to intensive blood sugar control with medicines such as insulin or metformin. The...
In this article: Glucose, Diabetics, University of Oxford, Metformin, University of California, Irvine, and Stroke
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Insulin is a hormone with intensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems (eg, vascular compliance). Insulin causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood (including liver, muscle, and fat tissue cells), storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source. When insulin is absent (or low), glucose is not taken up by most body cells and the body begins to use fat as an energy source (ie, transfer of lipids from adipose tissue to the liver for mobilization as an energy source). As its level is a central metabolic control mechanism, its status is also used as a control signal to other body systems (such as amino acid uptake by body cells). It has several other anabolic effects throughout the body. When control of insulin levels fail, diabetes mellitus results.
Insulin is used medically to treat some forms of diabetes mellitus. Patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus depend on external insulin (most commonly injected subcutaneously) for their survival because the hormone is no longer produced internally. Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus are insulin resistant, have relatively low insulin production, or both; some patients with Type 2 diabetes may eventually require insulin when other medications fail to control blood glucose levels adequately.
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