Klotho is a secreted protein that can be measured in the serum of patients and this can help in determining which patients would benefit
from rosiglitazone therapy and would be eligible for further studies.
Not exact matches
The researchers showed that the type 2 diabetes drug
rosiglitazone, which increases insulin sensitivity, also protects neurons
from ADDLs.
«Our compound clears lipids
from the diabetic mouse liver, whereas
rosiglitazone has the opposite effect,» said Saez.
Clinical trials of GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia (
rosiglitazone) and Merck's anti-inflammatory Vioxx (rofecoxib) revealed an elevated cardiac risk
from the drugs, but relevant findings were held back
from regulators or never published.
Pini M, Rhodes DH, Castellanos KJ, Cabay RJ, Grady EF, Fantuzzi G.
Rosiglitazone improves survival and hastens recovery
from pancreatic inflammation in obese mice.
But women, already benefiting
from metformin, improved heart metabolism further by adding
rosiglitazone, with the desired effect of reducing the heart's dependence on fat metabolism.
The diabetes drug
rosiglitazone has been under intense scrutiny since a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at more than 40 clinical trials and linked the drug's use with increased risk of heart attack and death
from heart disease.
In the report, published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Medicine, researchers
from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California report that
rosiglitazone (Avandia) has been shown to interfere with >> Read Article