Gene Inhibition May Help Normalize Type 2 Diabetes
Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 23:28
in Health & Medicine
In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, scientists have found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease in a rat model -- reducing blood glucose concentrations, decreasing rates of glucose production in the liver, and improving insulin sensitivity. Decreasing expression of the gene, Sirtuin 1, also lowered total cholesterol levels.