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Common diabetes drug controls aspects of inflammation in mice – News-Medical.Net
The diabetes drug metformin–derived from a lilac plant that’s been used medicinally for more than a thousand years–has been prescribed to hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the frontline treatment for type 2 diabetes.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 9 2020
The diabetes drug metformin–derived from a lilac plant that’s been used medicinally for more than a thousand years–has been prescribed to hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the frontline treatment for type 2 diabetes. Yet scientists don’t fully understand how the drug is so effective at controlling blood glucose.
Now, researchers at the Salk Institute have shown the importance of specific enzymes in the body for metformin’s function. In a…
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