News tagged with insulin release

Scientists link excess sugar to cancer

Sugars are needed to provide us with energy and in moderate amounts contribute to our well-being. Sustained high levels of sugars, as is found in diabetics, damages our cells and now is shown that can also ...

Medical research Feb 01, 2013 | 4.7 / 5 (19) | 12 |

Tasting fructose with the pancreas

Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February ...

Medical research Feb 06, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

New technology delivers sustained release of drugs for up to six months

A new technology which delivers sustained release of therapeutics for up to six months could be used in conditions which require routine injections, including diabetes, certain forms of cancer and potentially HIV/AIDS.

Medical research Aug 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

New mouse model confirms how type 2 diabetes develops

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mouse model that answers the question of what actually happens in the body when type 2 diabetes develops and how the body responds to drug treatment. Long-term ...

Diabetes May 03, 2013 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Genetic study links body clock receptor to diabetes

A study published in Nature Genetics today has found new evidence for a link between the body clock hormone melatonin and type 2 diabetes. The study found that people who carry rare genetic mutations in the receptor for me ...

Diabetes Jan 29, 2012 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Targeting neurotransmitter may help treat gastrointestinal conditions

Selective targeting of the neurotransmitter that differentially affects brain cells that control the two distinct functions of the pancreas may allow for new medication therapies for conditions like diabetes, dyspepsia and ...

Medical research Dec 04, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

How our nerves regulate insulin secretion

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to graft beta cells into the eyes of mice in order to study them in a living organism over a prolonged period of time. As a result, the group and a team of colleagues ...

Medical research Dec 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

New clues in hunt for heredity in type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes has strong hereditary tendencies and the genes we are born with cannot be changed. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden shows that we can modify the function of the genes through the epigenetic ...

Genetics Mar 19, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0