Posted on 11/21/2008 11:11:34 PM PST by FocusNexus
A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics say.
When Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues from the Suzuka University of Medical Science, Japan, gave the drug orally to type I diabetic mice, they found it reduced blood glucose levels.
The drug is based on vanadium and allixin, a compound found in garlic, and its action described in an Advance Article from Metallomics available free online from today. The first issue of the new journal will be published in 2009.
In previous work they had discovered the vanadium-allixin compound treated both diabetes types when injected, but this new study shows the drug has promise as an oral treatment for the disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Larry King is most appreciative of this study.
Another interesting article:
Two Cancer Drugs Prevent, Reverse Type 1 Diabetes, Animal Study Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118092250.htm
Two common cancer drugs have been shown to both prevent and reverse type 1 diabetes in a mouse model of the disease, according to research conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. The drugs - imatinib (marketed as Gleevec) and sunitinib (marketed as Sutent) - were found to put type 1 diabetes into remission in 80 percent of the test mice and work permanently in 80 percent of those that go into remission.
Interesting
Well that’s good news for the mice. But it won’t show up for people because there medical industry would loose to much money unless the pils can be made to be really, really exspensive and hard to get. Call the lawyers in our legislatures.
Of course.
Mice seem to always get the best drugs.
I think Gleevec and Sutent sound more promising.
Ping!
Thanks for that.
oh you are real funny.
I think you missed your intended target by one comment? If I was indeed your intended target, thanks............... I think lol
“Mice seem to always get the best drugs.”
You are good! LOL! I bet you get invited to all the parties!
It keeps away vampires, too. I wonder when they are going to do a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of that.
thanks, bfl
Note that you'll link to the abstract by clicking on the DOI(Digital Object Identifier) at the end of the ScienceDaily press release. From the abstract you can link to the complete article for free. Note the link in comment# 3 also. I haven't checked that link yet.
i am sorry, I thought you posted to post number 3 which means you were just using different names for the same drug... I thought it was your way of being funny. It was a mistake on my part.
Unfortunately, it is quite possible that just reducing blood glucose is not the answer. It doesn’t solve what is going on that causes the high numbers in the first place.
If you read medical journals, check out the article “Oral Hypoglycemics and Diabetic Nephropathy” by Nortin Hadler in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. (3: 159-162, 2008)
“If you read medical journals, check out the article “Oral Hypoglycemics and Diabetic Nephropathy” by Nortin Hadler in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. (3: 159-162, 2008)”
Just tried, but can’t even get the abstract, without subscription to CJASN. Could you please post the abstract or summarize?
I tend to agree with your statement: “Unfortunately, it is quite possible that just reducing blood glucose is not the answer. It doesn’t solve what is going on that causes the high numbers in the first place.”
I tend to think that high blood sugar is a symptom, and treating the symptom doesn’t cure the disease.
It has no abstract.
http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/vol3/issue1/
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