Sentences with phrase «potential diabetes drug»

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The limited potential profits of antibiotics can't compete with moneymaking drugs that treat chronic diseases such as diabetes.

«Diabetes drug shows potential as disease - modifying therapy for Parkinson's disease.»

As their novel technique for drug delivery is non-invasive and easy to use, the NUS team envisioned that the microneedles patch has great potential for applications in clinical and home care settings for the management of perioperative pain and chronic pain in patients suffering from conditions like diabetes and cancer.

Drugs that can block or inhibit the action of PTP1B have enormous potential in controlling diabetes and obesity.

Indeed, their combined phenotypic screening and target - identification approach enabled them to quickly discover, characterize and carry out preclinical tests of a potential new drug for obesity - linked diabetes: a complex metabolic disorder that affects 347 million people worldwide.

In addition to fat loss with diet and exercise, there may be a potential role for a diabetes drug, such as metformin, which can lower insulin effects and contribute to cancer prevention.»

The dual - effect risk loci also include the region covering the gene FABP4, which is already being investigated for its potential as a diabetes and heart - disease drug target.

Therefore, this peptide has immense potential for an anti-obesity reagent as well as a novel drug to treat type 2 diabetes.»

This mechanism includes potential targets for next - generation drug discovery efforts to treat metabolic diseases including diabetes and obesity.

«Alterations of metabolism in general are key to diabetes, and studies like this may have huge potential for unraveling new pathways which will lead to developing new drugs and new diagnostic tests,» she adds.

Additionally, the finding raises a question about potential interactions between anti-cholesterol drugs and diabetes.

This research will add to the foundational understanding of type 2 diabetes and has the potential to lead to new drug targets and better targeting of drugs.

Again, these experiments clearly highlight that PTP1B could be a very important player in the development of insulin resistance, and this has actually led to a number of pharmaceutical companies developing drugs, trying to develop inhibitors of PTP1B as potential drugs for treatment of obesity and type II diabetes.

11/6/2007 UCSD Researchers Discover Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance Findings may have important potential for new drug discoveries in fight against Type 2 diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrop... More...

Working with animal models, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have demonstrated the potential of giving a drug in combination with tPA that might improve stroke outcomes and increase the window of opportunity for the therapy.

This uncovers the potential for a diabetes drug under development, which targets this pathway, to be repositioned to aid organ transplantation.

Founded in 2010 by Drs. Stig K. Hansen and Daniel A. Erlanson, Carmot has built and optimized this powerful platform to identify superior drugs for validated targets with significant market potential such as GLP - 1R / GIPR for Type 2 diabetes and NEMO / IKK for cancer and inflammation, and which have been refractory to traditional discovery approaches.

Genome - wide association studies (GWAS) of common variants have successfully implicated more than 70 genomic regions in type 2 diabetes, revealing new biological pathways and potential drug targets.

«Further, this is a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), drug resistant epilepsy, brittle type I diabetes, and diabetes type II, where there is insulin resistance.

For example, Indian gooseberries, also known as amla, may help treat diabetes without the potential side effects of the drug, Glyburide, which in rare cases can result in skin peeling off.