Sunday, July 15, 2012

arly stages of a completely new treatment for diabetes.” Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/13/chemical-that-regulates-biological-clock-could-foster-new-diabetes-treatments?

A pill that acts as a glucose lowering agent

“What happens in many diabetic patients is this production of glucose by the liver increases,” Kay said.  “One of the strategies for treating diabetes is to identify glucose lowering agents.  They activate cryptochrome, and when it’s active, it acts like the breaks on gluconeogenesis – wants to shut down glucose position.  For us, we think we’re at the early stages of a completely new treatment for diabetes.”

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