Journal of Pharmacognosy & Natural Products

2Department of Pharmacognosy, Uruk University, Baghdad, Iraq

Publications

• Mini Review   
  An Overview of Therapeutic and Non Therapeutic Methods of Anti-Diabetic Activity
  Author(s): Ramadevi Devarakonda* and Dora Babu Neerugatti
  
  Diabetes mellitus and its complications are one of the major health challenges of our time. Currently, more than 400 million adults are affected, a number that is expected to increase to 600 million people within the next two decades. Type 2 diabetes mellitus, or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, is the most common type and its initial stages are treated with oral anti-diabetics. Though anti-hyperglycemic agents with different mechanisms of action are commercially available, their adverse events and hepato-renal toxicity are pronounced. Thus, the discovery of new and safer medicines is urgently warranted. Natural drug products have always been an important source of bio actives and drugs derived from nature still account for half of today’s approved therapeutics. This Special Issue, “Antidiabetic Drugs from Natural Resources”, is dedicated to th.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2472-0992.2020.6.181

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