Monday, March 03, 2008

BBC NEWS | Health | Frog skin diabetes treatment hope


BBC NEWS | Health | Frog skin diabetes treatment hope: "Skin secretions from a South American 'shrinking' frog could be used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

A compound isolated from the frog, which grows to 27cm as a tadpole before shrinking to 4cm in adulthood, stimulates insulin release.

A synthetic version of the compound - pseudin-2 - could be used to produce new drugs, delegates at the Diabetes UK annual conference heard."











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