This article by Dr. Angela Polito et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS Zinc is one of the essential components in the diet of all living organisms. It is the second most abundant biological trace element after iron. Zinc is of great importance in various metabolic functions and its deficiency can cause many...
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Stanford researchers use zinc to target insulin-producing cells with regenerative drug
An insulin injection can manage diabetes symptoms, but actually curing the disease would mean healing cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the amount of sugar in blood. One promising approach may be to stimulate the regeneration of those cells with drugs. But there’s a major obstacle: The growth triggered by...
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