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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Homologies between Bauhinia forficata Link subsp. pruinosa and pancreatic beta-cell specific transcriptional activator: a starting point for drug design new in diabetes?
Authors:
Luis Jesuino de Oliveira Andrade, Gabriela Correia Matos de Oliveira, Paulo Roberto Santana de Melo, Hudson Sá Sodré, Carlos Alberto Menezes, Alcina Maria Vinhaes Bittencourt
Published in:
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with an ever-increasing incidence in world and has become the object of scientific research into the search for novel therapeutic alternatives. Bauhinia forficata Link, known locally as cow foot, has been traditionally used as tea in folk medicine of Brazil for treatment of DM. …