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Metformin: an old drug with potential therapeutic function in antitumor

2021-11-08

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Metformin is one of the first-line and widely-used drugs in patients with T2DM due to its safety profile, clinical efficacy and cheap cost. It is clearly that metformin has benefits on lowering hyperglycemia and diabetes-related complications in clinical use. The classic effect of metformin is to reduce hepatic glucose production by inhibiting gluconeogenesis in liver and increase glucose utilization in peripheral...

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Literature Corpus work: 15d83201-2cff-5782-a122-52c2e4041278
DOI: 10.22541/au.163640852.26812577/v1

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