No insulin injections, no avoiding sugar. A daily drug can reverse diabetes symptoms in mice, opening the opportunity for a lot easier way for diabetics to keep their glucose level within safe limits.
Previously, drugs were unable to recover the insulin signaling function in diabetic patients instead, they work by removing excess glucose in the blood that comes due to the dysfunction.
But the drug produced by a team of scientists, led by Stephanie Stanford at the University of California, San Diego, inhibits the enzyme LMPTP. This daily pill may make easier to control diabetes in rich nations where weight problems are on the rise.
The team has found that delivering mice with diabetes a drug that impacts insulin signaling restores their ability to control their blood sugar levels. The drug was given daily, by mouth, and did not seem to have any side effects in the mice. The animals had developed the condition after a high-fat diet had made them obese.
Sources:
A New Drug May Be Able to Completely Reverse Diabetes
Diabetes drug could be the first to reverse the disease
Diabetes reversal by inhibition of the low-molecular-weight tyrosine phosphatase
More reading:
News In Robotics
Did you know that you have more than one operating system on your computer?
Why Fork Didn't Happen?
AI Say Yes To The Dress
Cryptocomic
Facebook Isn't Free
AlphaGo Zero Learns Without Human Involvement
The Internet Of Ransomware Things
