Aug

11

Coming Soon, a `wine` Drug fighting ageing, Diabetes and Cancer

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Researchers asserted that in the next five years, a drug will be introduced which will hold the clock of diabetes, cancer and heart disease. According to the scientists, the magical drug can be used to stop Alzheimer’s and can also revitalize the patients.

The drug is made up of chemicals i.e. mimic resveratrol that is found in red grapes skin. Studies have been shown that resveratrol reduces the impact of high-fat diet and increases the vigor and life time in mice.

Though availing the same advantages, an individual will have to take around 1,000 bottles of wine. A pharmaceutical firm, Sirtris has introduced a pill which is based on two chemicals and performs in the similar way.

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Jul

16

Diabetes intensifies TB risk

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Individuals with diabetes are at an increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), according to research published in the journal PLoS Medicine.

Researchers searching over the past four decades containing data on the relationship between diabetes and TB. Christie Jeon and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health identified 13 studies involving more than 1.7 million participants, including 17,698 cases of TB.

Researchers calculated that diabetes increases the risk of active TB by about a factor of three. A three-fold increased risk suggests that diabetes may already be responsible for more than 10percent of TB cases in India and China.

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Jul

9

New way to test for Diabetes Risk

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A U.S. study published that the protein produced in the liver may give doctors a way to foresee years in advance that is at great risk for the common type of diabetes.

Examined people in their 70s, the researchers found those with high quantity of protein is called as fetuin-A were far more expected than those with low levels to obtain type 2 diabetes over six years. Fetuin-A is produced by liver cells and may be combined in the metabolism of the sugar glucose and calcium. . Type 2 diabetes is marked by high levels of glucose, the body’s source of energy in the blood.

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Mar

4

Treatment for diabetes from frog skin

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Researchers say that  skin secretions from a South American “Shrinking” frog could help out for type 2 diabetes.

A synthetic version of the compound - pseudin-2 - could be used to produce new drugs, delegates at the Diabetes UK annual conference heard.

In UK around two million people have type2 diabetes.

The condition, which is often associated with being overweight, develops because the body does not produce enough insulin, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly.

It means people cannot regulate their blood glucose levels properly.

A compound which protects the paradoxical frog from infection. Scientists from the University of Ulster and United Arab Emirates University have tested a synthetic version of pseudin-2.

It stimulating the secretion of insulin in pancreatic cells in the laboratory was found

Most importantly, there were no toxic effects on the cells.

The synthetic version was better at stimulating insulin than the natural compound, opening the way for it potential development as a drug for treating diabetes.

One recently developed diabetes drug - exenatide - was developed from a hormone in the saliva of the Gila monster - a lizard found in south-western United States and northern Mexico.

 There had been a lot of research into bioactive molecules from amphibian skin secretions. Study leader Dr Yasser Abdel-Wahab, senior lecturer in biomedical sciences at the University of Ulster.

“We found that it stimulated the secretion of insulin and that the synthetic version is more potent that pseudin-2 itself.

As you can see, is already yielding fascinating results.” “More research is needed, but there is a growing body of work around natural anti-diabetic drug discovery.

Although type 2 diabetes could be managed with diet and physical activity, the condition was progressive and may require medication to control it effectively. Douglas Smallwood, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said although type 2 diabetes could be managed with diet and physical activity.



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