| Literature DB >> 27185119 |
Peng-Cheng Wang1, Shan Zhao1, Bing-You Yang1, Qiu-Hong Wang2, Hai-Xue Kuang3.
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease attracted worldwide concerns, which severely impairs peoples' quality of life and is attributed to several life-threatening complications, including atherosclerosis, nephropathy and retinopathy. The current therapies for DM include mainly oral anti-diabetic drugs and insulin. However, continuous use of these causes insulin resistance and side-effects, and the demand of effective, nontoxic and affordable drugs for DM patients is eager. Several previous studies have shown that non-toxic biological macromolecules, mainly polysaccharides, possess prominent efficacies on DM. Based on these encouraging observations, a great deal of efforts have been focused on discovering anti-diabetic polysaccharides for the development of effective therapeutics for DM. This review focuses on the advancements in the anti-diabetic efficacy of various natural polysaccharides and polysaccharide complexes from 2010 to 2015.Entities:
Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Mushroom; Plants; Polysaccharide complexes; Polysaccharides
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27185119 DOI： 10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.02.060
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Carbohydr Polym ISSN： 0144-8617 Impact factor: 9.381