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Diabetic silkworms for evaluation of therapeutically effective drugs against type II diabetes.
Scientific reports - 29 May 2015
Matsumoto Yasuhiko, Ishii Masaki, Hayashi Yohei, Miyazaki Shinya, Sugita Takuya, Sumiya Eriko, Sekimizu Kazuhisa
Abstract excerpt
We previously reported that sugar levels in the silkworm hemolymph, i.e., blood, increase immediately (within 1 h) after intake of a high-glucose diet, and that the administration of human insulin decreases elevated hemolymph sugar levels in silkworms. In this hyperglycemic silkworm model, however, administration of pioglitazone or metformin, drugs used clinically for the treatment of type II diabetes, have no...
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