Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder in the endocrine system. This dreadful disease is found in all parts of the world and is becoming a serious threat to mankind health. There are lots of chemical agents available to control and to treat diabetic patients, but total recovery from diabetes has not been reported up to this date. Alternative to these synthetic agents, plants provide a potent...

Mangifera odorata, or known as “kuini” in Malay, is considered an underutilised climacteric tropical fruit. Recent studies had suggested that the by-products of M. odorata may serve functional food ingredients based on their nutritional values and biological activities. Thus, present work was aimed to determine composition, antidiabetic properties through ?-glucosidase ?-amylase inhibition assa...

Seedling, seedling parts and callus cultures of onion were tested for their antidiabetic activity by feeding the tissue-extracts to diabetic rats. The results indicated much higher antidiabetic activity in callus cultures as compared to natural bulbs of onion. These results may be of pharmaceutical significance since the callus can be used as an alternative source for the isolation of antidiabe...

The adenohypophysis contains high-affinity binding sites for antidiabetic sulfonylureas that are specific blockers of ATP-sensitive K+ channels. The binding protein has a M(r) of 145,000 +/- 5000. The presence of ATP-sensitive K+ channels (26 pS) has been demonstrated by electrophysiological techniques. Intracellular perfusion of adenohypophysis cells with an ATP-free medium to activate ATP-sen...

Metformin is, if not contraindicated and if tolerated, usually preferred over other antidiabetic drugs for the first line treatment of type-2 diabetes. The particular decision on which antidiabetic agent to use is based on variables such as efficacy, cost, potential side effects, effects on weight, comorbidities, hypoglycemia, risk, and patient preferences. However, there is no guidance how to ...

Counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry has become a serious and underreported problem, particularly in developing countries. This Application Note shows the analysis of antidiabetic drugs of the sulfonylurea class using the Agilent 1220 Infinity Gradient LC system with diode array detector (DAD). Both HPLC and UHPLC methods revealed excellent precision, accuracy and linearity as well as ...

Thiazolidinedione is an important target for Antidiabetic drugs. There is still significant potential for designing new chemical entity with affordable, safe and efficacious Antidiabetic drug. In present study 2-thioxo4-thiazolidinedione derivatives were designed and interaction of these was investigated by docking studies in the binding site of PPARγ using (PDB ID 1FM9) enzyme using Glide v 5....

a new series of thiazolidinedione derivatives were synthesized. the structures of these compounds were established by means of ir, 1h-nmr and elemental analysis. all of the compounds were screened for antidiabetic activity on albino rats. most of the compounds showed significant antidiabetic activity when compared with the standard drug glibenclamide.

the complex metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, is a major human health concern in the world and is estimated to affect 300 million people by the year 2025. several drugs such as sulfonylureas and biguanides are presently available to reduce hyperglycemia in diabetes mellitus. these drugs have side effects and thus searching for a new class of compounds is essential to overcome this problems...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of the study are to screen out various phytochemicals and to evaluate the antioxidant and antidiabetic potential of the stem bark of Holarrhena pubescens Wall (Holarrhena antidysenterica). MATERIALS AND METHODS The antioxidant activity was determined by the DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging activity where ascorbic acid was taken as positive contr...