Mouse study raises possibility of new treatment for diabetes

By Robert Preidt
Contributing Writer

(Special from HealthDay News) — The easy loans in western cape discovery of a molecule that can help insulin last longer in the body and work more efficiently at lowering blood sugar could lead to a new treatment for diabetes, a new study in mice suggests.

payday loans livingston tx Giving the animals the molecule lowered levels of insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), which then raised insulin levels, the Harvard University researchers report.

Much more investigation is needed, but the compound may one day help can you have more than one payday loan in colorado people with diabetes control their disease more effectively, according to the authors of the study published May 21 in the journal Nature.

“This work validates a new potential target for the treatment of diabetes,” study payday payroll co-author David Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard, said in a university news release. “What we show is that inhibiting IDE in an animal can improve glucose tolerance under conditions that mimic the intake of a meal instant loans no credit checks online approval if you administer this compound beforehand.”

Insulin-based diabetes treatments include insulin injection, drugs that stimulate insulin production or drugs that make the body more sensitive to insulin.

“What’s been cash loans capalaba missing has been the ability to regulate the degradation [breakdown] of insulin,” study co-author Alan Saghatelian, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard, said in the news release. “The technological leap we’ve made was in identifying a psecu cash advance fee molecule that allows that to happen.”

Promising research with animals often fails to provide similar results in humans.

This article originally published in the May 26, 2014 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.