Antidiabetic Drugs from Natural Resources
A special issue of Medicines (ISSN 2305-6320).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2019) | Viewed by 4902
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diabetes mellitus and its complications are one of the major health challenges of our time. Currently, more than 400 million adults are affected, a number that is expected to increase to 600 million people within the next two decades. Type 2 diabetes mellitus, or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, is the most common type and its initial stages are treated with oral antidiabetics. Though antihyperglycemic agents with different mechanisms of action are commercially available, their adverse events and hepato-renal toxicity are pronounced. Thus, the discovery of new and safer medicines is urgently warranted.
Natural drug products have always been an important source of bioactives and drugs derived from nature still account for half of today’s approved therapeutics. This Special Issue, “Antidiabetic Drugs from Natural Resources”, is dedicated to the discovery of new antidiabetic lead compounds from nature. Research articles and reviews dealing with novel antidiabetic activities of natural products and/or natural sources of antidiabetics are therefore very welcome. Additionally, the evaluation of extracts and herbal preparations used for the treatment of diabetes mellitus by modern analytical techniques will be considered.
Dr. Serhat Sezai Çiçek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diabetes mellitus
- natural products
- α-glucosidase
- PPARγ
- DPP IV
- 11β-HSD1
- SGLT2
- PTP1B
