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Antidiabetic Agents: Recent Advances in their Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology

  • 1st Edition, Volume 27 - May 8, 1996
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Bernard Testa, Urs A. Meyer
  • Language: English

Volume 27, the first thematic volume in the Series, provides an overview of present knowledge with regard to the pharmacological and clinical aspects of antidiabetic drugs. It aims… Read more

Description

Volume 27, the first thematic volume in the Series, provides an overview of present knowledge with regard to the pharmacological and clinical aspects of antidiabetic drugs. It aims to stimulate further consideration of possible concepts in the development of new antidiabetic drugs.

Readership

Pharmacologists, medicinal chemists, and toxicologists.

Table of contents

Introduction.
Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis.
Clinical Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus.
Mechanisms of Insulin Action.
Therapeutic Use of Insulin.
The Secretory Machinery of Insulin Release.
Compounds Acting on Insulin Secretion: Sulphonylureas.
Compounds Acting on Glucose Uptake: Biguanides.
Compounds Acting on Glucose Absorption.
Aldose Reductase Inhibitors as New Antidiabetic Drugs.
Conclusions.
References.
Cumulative Index of Authors.
Cumulative Index of Titles.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 27
  • Published: May 14, 1996
  • Language: English

About the editors

BT

Bernard Testa

Affiliations and expertise
University Hospital Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland

UM

Urs A. Meyer

Affiliations and expertise
Biocentre, University of Basel, Switzerland

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