A huge number of people all over the world are currently suffering from diabetes. Researchers have recently made a breakthrough by inventing a drug that can reverse this disease.
Most people who suffer from diabetes prefer insulin injections to control the blood sugar level. Some people also avoid sugar to get rid of the problem. Interestingly a team of researchers has invented a drug that can easily reverse this health problem, New Scientist reported. The researchers tested the drug successfully in mice.
Insulin is the key hormone that controls the sugar level in the blood, but people become the victims of diabetes when the hormone gets weaker. Change of diet and lifestyle help to restrict partially the symptoms of this disease. Some drugs are also available in the market that can remove sugar from the system, but they give birth to some side effects.
These drugs can manage the problem to some extent, but can't reverse it. Diabetes can lead to several major health problems like nerve damage, kidney damage, vision problems and others. According to Latinos Health, a diabetic pregnant woman bears the risk of a premature delivery with poor brain development of the baby.
Researcher Stephanie Stanford of the University of California and her team have created a breakthrough in controlling diabetes. They have tested a drug in the mice to see its effectiveness. Surprisingly the outcome shows that the drug affects the insulin signaling and controls the sugar level. The research team applied the drug orally on a regular basis and availed no sign of side effects.
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Stephanie Stanford opines that the drug can offer a therapeutic strategy to treat type 2 diabetes. Many diabetic patients currently depend on the insulin injections and the key aim of this drug is to reverse the insulin resistance. Stanford reveals that an enzyme called LMPTP or low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase promotes the insulin resistance. Now it is necessary to hinder the LMPTP and reawakens the insulin receptors in the cells to recover from diabetes.
The research team has at last successfully developed a drug that can block the actions of the LMPTP enzyme in the liver. In a word, the drug helps to increase the activity of the insulin receptor in the liver and this reverse the diabetes problem. Researchers all over the world are trying for a long time to tame the said enzyme.
Stephanie Stanford says that the drug produces no side effects in the mice, and the next step is to create safe clinical trials. It is an essential fact that safe and successful human trials will explore the necessity of its random use. It is the need of the hour to eliminate diabetes and hopefully, the new drug can bring that satisfactory result.
