Cite this article:
Jäger (2016). Finding the World's Best Plants for Management of Type-2 Diabetes. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 29(1), pp.23.
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Finding the
World's Best Plants for Management of Type-2 Diabetes
A K Jäger
Department of Drug Design and
Pharmacology, Universitet sparken 2. 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Corresponding author email: anna.jager@
sund.ku.dk
[Received
05 January 2016]
Abstract: The number of
people afflicted by type-2 diabetes is rapidly increasing 382 million people in
the world are estimated to have type-2 diabetes today. In Denmark, more than 20
% of the population is afflicted, meaning that one in four adults is affected.
Currently, there are very few herbal products on the marked in Denmark for
management of type-2 diabetes. This prompted the aim of identifying the best
plants in the world for the various targets involved in type-2 diabetes. Our
research takes its starting point in ethnopharmacological rescarch already
performed, mining results, selecting the most promising candidates, then
evaluating them in our lab for activity on type-2 diabetes targets, to find the
truly promising plants. Preclinical data are required if herbal products are to
be registered with the health authorities, and thereby becoming available for
the patients.
Keywords: Diabetes,
Ethnopharmacology