to identify the antidiabetic plants of iran, a systematic review of the published literature on the efficacy of iranian medicinal plant for glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was conducted. we performed an electronic literature search of medline, science direct, scopus, proquest, ebsco, googlescholar, sid, cochrane library database, from 1966 up to june 2010. the search t...

Bleomycin hydrolase (BH) is a highly conserved cysteine proteinase that deamidates and inactivates the anticancer drug bleomycin. Yeast BH self-assembles to form a homohexameric structure, which resembles a 20 S proteasome and may interact with other proteins. Therefore, we searched for potential human BH (hBH) partners using the yeast two-hybrid system with a HeLa cDNA library and identified t...

Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy of Bolus Six Drugs Including Rehmannia (Liuwei Dihuang pill) as an adjunct to metformin in treatment senile Type-2 diabetes mellitus and its influence on insulin resistance, inflammatory factors blood glucose-related indexes.
 Methods: This is a Retrospective study. Eighty admitted Baoding Hospital Traditional Chinese Medicine from January 20...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which type 2 diabetes is associated with poorer performance on measures of learning, memory, psychomotor speed, and problem-solving in middle-aged adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated 50 adults (age range 34-65 years, mean 50.8) with type 2 diabetes and 50 demographically similar community control subjects without diabetes...

Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme activities were measured in 41 type 1 diabetics (16.4 +/- 4.0 U/ml), in 40 type 2 diabetics (15.0 +/- 5.2 U/ml) and in 52 controls (13.0 +/- 2.7 U/ml, mean +/- SD). Twenty six (32%) of 81 patients presented with serum angiotensin-converting enzyme activities above the normal range. No relation between serum angiotensin-converting enzyme activities and the pre...

AIMS Hypochromic microcytic anaemia is the hallmark phenotype of thalassaemia. Current phenotypical tests do not provide a diagnosis in a small proportion of patients with red blood cell microcytosis. We aim to evaluate the genetic basis of red cell microcytosis in these cases in our Chinese population. METHODS We identified from a large cohort of 1684 unselected requests for thalassaemia tes...

AIM To evaluate cardiac affection in type 1 diabetes in relation to Omentin. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty two diabetics and 30 volunteer of the same age and sex were included as a control group. Blood sample was taken for assessment of omentin and oxidized low density lipoprotein (OxLDL), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1) and lipid profile. Urine sample was taken for assessment of albumin/creatini...

In 30 ambulatory patients (14 men and 16 women), with diabetes mellitus (7 of type I and 23 of type II) of variable duration and with ages averaging 52.2 years, the degree of retinal microan giopathy was assessed along with the erythrocyte filtration rate (FR) and the percentage of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA,). The FR was significantly (p < 0.001) lower among the diabetics (12.09 ± 2.71 JAI s...