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New idea for new drug candidates

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A recent article reveals a new idea for designing new drug candidates for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Written by Ngoc Doan Trang Nguyen and Ly Thi Le, the article offers new drug candidates to produce antidiabetic drugs against type 2 diabetes for Vietnamese people.

Doan Trang Nguyen works at Life Science Laboratory, Saigon Institute for Computational Science and Technology. Ly Thi Le comes from School of Biotechnology, Ho Chi Minh International University.

According to the author, it is very common in middle-aged people and involves such dangerous symptoms as increasing risk of stroke, obesity and heart failure.

As we heard in Vietnam, some herbal medication is used in diabetes treatment. However, it no unified optimum remedy for the disease yet exists. It also recognized that no production of antidiabetic drugs in the domestic market yet.

In the development of nanomedicine at the present time, drug design is considered as an innovative tool for researchers to study the mechanisms of diseases at the molecular level.

Source:
Targeted proteins for diabetes drug design
Ngoc Doan Trang Nguyen and Ly Thi Le 2012 Adv. Nat. Sci: Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 3 013001

Cjonline: Website offers Native American diabetes forums

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online forum diabeticTwo Native American professors living in Kansas say Type 2 diabetes has ravaged their race for so many years they felt compelled to help spread information and hope for those battling the disease.

Rhonda LeValdo and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam said they hope the Native American tradition of storytelling will help combat the spread among Native Americans of Type 2 diabetes, a chronic blood-sugar disease often triggered by obesity.

“It seemed inevitable,” said Lamsam, 50, a visiting journalism professor at The University of Kansas who grew up on an Osage reservation in Pawhuska, Okla. “You’re going to get older. You’re going to get diabetes because you’re Indian. When I saw complications, I used to think, ‘I wonder how long before they lose their feet?’ Amputations were so common.”

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