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Targets and Mechanisms - Metabolic disease

SciBX 1(45); doi:10.1038/scibx.2008.1094
Published online Dec. 18 2008

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for diabetes

by Brian Moy, Staff Writer

UCSF researchers have shown that Novartis' Gleevec and Pfizer's Sutent, two small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, prevented and even reversed type 1 diabetes in mice. It remains to be seen whether short-term use of this drug class can actually produce long-term therapeutic benefits safely.


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