Sentences with phrase «of human insulin»

Biocon's plans to expand internationally took a hit this year when Pfizer pulled out of a planned $ 350 million agreement to market biosimilars of human insulin in the United States and other key markets; however, the company has retained a substantial portion of the $ 200 million received from Pfizer to continue with its development obligations.

«Giant leap for diabetes: From human embryonic stem cells to billions of human insulin producing cells.»

The most prescribed types of insulin are called analogues, which are slight variations of human insulin that aim to help diabetics» bodies function more closely to how they would if they were able to produce the insulin themselves.

Not exact matches

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The practice of refining the sugar crystals from sugar cane of sugar beets has wrought havoc on the insulin / blood sugar regulation mechanisms of humans ever since it's invention.

The effects of fat and protein on glycemic responses in nondiabetic humans vary with waist circumference, fasting plasma insulin, and dietary fiber intake

The reason for this seems to be insulin - like growth factor (IGF), a protein that is released by the liver of all animals (humans included) in response to growth hormone.

For a long time, insulin was not thought to play a direct role in regulating the milk - making cells of the human breast, because insulin is not needed for these cells to take in sugars, such as glucose.

Now that they've demonstrated the significance of insulin signaling in the human mammary gland, they are planning a phase I / II clinical trial with a drug used to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes to determine whether it improves insulin action in the mammary gland, thus improving milk supply.

For instance, pig insulin varies from human insulin by just one amino acid, and was used for most of the 20th century to keep people with diabetes alive.

«Acute repeated spikes in blood sugar that you see with each dose of this drug have long - term impacts — and can predispose patients to the development of insulin - resistance Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,» said David Wright, associate professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences and corresponding author of the paper.

Since the first recombinant protein — human insulin or humulin — was marketed in the U.S. by Eli Lilly in 1982, an estimated $ 30 billion of recombinant proteins have been sold.

Rapamycin, by contrast, allowed a buildup of fatty acids and eventually an increase in insulin resistance, which in humans can lead to diabetes.

For patients for whom metformin is unsuitable according to the Summary of Product Characteristics, human insulin alone constitutes the ACT.

A big drawback to long - term use of rapamycin, however, is the increase in insulin resistance, observed in both humans and laboratory animals.

In addition, the scientists observed that human beings suffering from insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have a greater amount of active DPP4 in their blood than healthy people.

In addition to looking at mouse models of diabetes, the researchers also showed that exposure of human pancreatic islet cells — both from healthy donors and from patients with Type 1 diabetes — to fasting - mimicking diet in a dish stimulated insulin production.

In 1997 researchers in Ruvkun's laboratory at Harvard Medical School reported that the gene in question was the worm equivalent of a trio of insulin - related genes in humans.

Physician David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, notes in an email message that «what is ironic here is that [free radicals are] generally thought to be bad in human diabetes,» because they lead to dysfunction in the cells that make insulin and vascular complications.

One of these, exendin - 4, was found to be almost 50 percent identical to a hormone found in the human digestive tract that boosts the production of insulin when blood sugar levels spike.

This «smart» patch, covered in nearly 100 needles the size of human eyelashes, could one day serve as a blood glucose monitor and at the same time replace insulin injections for diabetics — a painful ritual that some patients have to go through several times a day.

This pattern of weight gain and insulin resistance parallels the development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in humans, Hinton said.

Previous animal and human studies had found that «giving glucosamine can impair insulin's action, which can potentially make [people] diabetic or worsen diabetes,» says Rajaram J. Karne, now of the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus.

Foxo is widely expressed throughout the body (both in flies and in humans), particularly in muscle, the liver and pancreas — and can regulate many aspects of metabolism in response to insulin signaling.

The cells of such different organisms as roundworms, flies and humans use the insulin / IGF signalling pathway.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

A new study published today in the Canadian Journal of Zoology found that captive bears fed a diet high in saturated fats and low in «healthy» polyunsaturated fats did not show symptoms of disease typically observed in humans eating foods high in saturated fats such as insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes.

«By identifying the signals that instruct mouse progenitor cells to become cells that make tubes and later insulin - producing beta cells, we can transfer this knowledge to human stem cells to more robustly make beta cells, says Professor and Head of Department Henrik Semb from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

Years of diabetes research carried out on mice whose DNA had been altered with a human growth hormone gene is now ripe for reinterpretation after a new study by researchers at KU Leuven confirms that the gene had an unintended effect on the mice's insulin production, a key variable in diabetes research.

Shamefully, accolades that resounded a generation ago for biotechnology advances — for instance, recombining DNA to develop human - derived insulin, which is much safer than the animal - derived products that came before — have been drowned out by a misinformed coalition of 114 organizations, including ETC Group and Friends of the Earth.

In humans, glucose tolerance varies with time of day, but the mechanism responsible for the variation in insulin sensitivity throughout the day is unclear.

In a recent study in The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Murcia investigated whether human adipose (fat) tissue possesses its own circadian rhythm in insulin sensitivity that could contribute to this phenomenon.

«Our study demonstrates that subcutaneous human fat tissue has an internal clock that is able to regulate insulin sensitivity even when outside of the body.

In these two microscopy images, human islets (the source of insulin cells) were poisoned with a drug to remove the insulin cells, and then treated with either an empty virus (left panel) or the therapeutic virus (right panel), and then grown in a diabetic mouse.

Dr. Espen Spangenburg, associate professor of kinesiology, and his laboratory team are the first to identify that the BRCA1 protein is expressed in the skeletal muscle of both mice and humans, and that it plays a key role in fat storage, insulin response and mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle cells.

If the finding holds true for humans, this insulin response could translate to a reduced risk of diabetes.

In humans with type 2 diabetes, cells lose the ability to respond to insulin, a hormone that helps regulate the level of sugar in the body.

If they're correct, the snail's venom may yield insight into the nuances of how insulin is regulated that may extend to humans.

The work highlights a previously unrecognized molecular pathway that contributes to the malfunction of insulin - producing pancreatic beta cells in T1D in human patients and in mice, and shows that a chemical intervention can help beta cells function properly and survive.

A ONE - OFF treatment for diabetes is a step closer thanks to a better understanding of how human liver cells can be transformed into something like the beta cells that produce insulin in a healthy pancreas.

The results suggest that increased IL - 12 levels help kill insulin - producing cells in humans, too, says Luciano Adorini of Roche Milano Ricerche in Italy.

1980s, your class may have covered the clinical use of recombinant human insulin for diabetes treatment and the advent of GMO foods.

Scientists report in the May 9 Science Translational Medicine that seven of 12 diabetic mice treated with this combination were cured even after having lost the ability to make insulin for several weeks, the equivalent of a human patient who has needed insulin injections for a couple of years.

If you took high school biology in the 1980s, you may have learned about the clinical use of recombinant human insulin for diabetes treatment (approved for the Eli Lilly products in the US by the FDA in 1982).

Studying the structure of the cone snail insulin could help researchers modify human insulin to lose its self - aggregation but retain its potency, Safavi says.

Human triglyceride - rich lipoproteins impair glucose metabolism and insulin signalling in L6 skeletal muscle cells independently of non-esterified fatty acid levels.

«We found that insulin signaling can initiate the binding of this transcription factor with PLK - 1 and CENP - A, in both mouse and human beta cells,» Kulkarni says.

«ViaCyte was the first to differentiate human stem cells into glucose - responsive, insulin - producing cells, and now we are running the first and only clinical trials of stem cell - derived islet replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.

Until now, scientists examining the causes and effects of insulin resistance have struggled with a general lack of human cell lines from tissues such as muscle, fat and liver that respond significantly to insulin, Kahn says.

To understand some of the techniques used in biotechnology, lets look at how bacteria have been modified to produce human insulin.