Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rapoport said his interest in the subject began more than 20 years ago when he was studying preinsulin, a precursor of the hormone insulin...
...research is only getting under way. In the interim, DHEA boosters point hopefully to a couple of small studies by Dr. Samuel Yen of the University of California at San Diego. They showed that giving DHEA to middle-age men and women elevated levels of yet another hormone, called insulin-like growth factor, which stimulates cell growth and cell division. Most of the subjects taking the hormone reported they felt more energetic, happier and better able to cope with stress. But neither finding, as Yen himself acknowledges, proves that aging has been reversed...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...
Epoetin alfa is only one among many designer-fashioned molecules that have been used both to treat bodily deficiencies and to influence certain cellular processes. Each year since 1982, when insulin became the first DNA-based drug to be approved by the fda, the list has steadily lengthened. Sales of drugs produced by the manipulation of DNA currently run in the billions of dollars...
...most of the 16 million Americans who have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, insulin injections timed up to one hour before each meal are a routine part of dining. The diabetic either does not make enough insulin to digest sugars or does not use the insulin efficiently. New classes of drugs may make keeping track of sugar levels easier. Some of these work in the small intestine to inhibit the absorption of carbohydrates (which raise blood-sugar levels) after a meal, while others stop the liver from producing excess amounts of sugar. This summer a new type of insulin...