Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Study in mice suggests new possible pathway of lowering sugar levels, University of Michigan research shows
A new link between obesity and type 2 diabetes found in mice could open the door to exploring new potential drug treatments for diabetes, University of Michigan Health System research has found.
Drugs for type 2 diabetes commonly target insulin, which lowers blood glucose levels. But the U-M study suggests that glucagon ? a pancreas-produced hormone that has the opposite effect of insulin by raising blood glucose levels ? may also provide a powerful pathway to preventing and treating the increasingly prevalent disease.
Findings of the study were published this week ahead of print in Nature Medicine.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ve-way-study-new-drugs-for-type-diabetes.html
A new link between obesity and type 2 diabetes found in mice could open the door to exploring new potential drug treatments for diabetes, University of Michigan Health System research has found.
Drugs for type 2 diabetes commonly target insulin, which lowers blood glucose levels. But the U-M study suggests that glucagon ? a pancreas-produced hormone that has the opposite effect of insulin by raising blood glucose levels ? may also provide a powerful pathway to preventing and treating the increasingly prevalent disease.
Findings of the study were published this week ahead of print in Nature Medicine.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ve-way-study-new-drugs-for-type-diabetes.html