What is it about?

here are around 410 experimentally proven medicinal plants having antidiabetic properties but the complete mechanism of action is available only for about 109. There are several medicinal plants whose extract modulate glycolysis, Krebs cycle, gluconeogenesis, HMP shunt pathway, glycogen synthesis and their degradation, cholesterol synthesis, metabolism and absorption of carbohydrates, and synthesis and release of insulin.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is not one disease but is a heterogonous group of syndromes. Contrary to the popular belief DM is a metabolic disorder characterized by increased blood glucose level (hyperglycemia) and this is because of insufficient or inefficient insulin secretary response.

Perspectives

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the mode of action of medicinal plants that exhibit anti-diabetic properties.

Dr Pranav Kumar Prabhakar
Lovely Professional University

Read the Original

This page is a summary of: A Target Based Therapeutic Approach Towards Diabetes Mellitus Using Medicinal Plants, Current Diabetes Reviews, November 2008, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/157339908786241124.
You can read the full text:

Read

Contributors

The following have contributed to this page