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Cheap Blood Pressure Drug Cures Diabetes In Mice, Human Trials Announced

by Traci Bratton

November 12, 2014
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The potential application to diabetes arises from the discovery by Dr. Anath Shalev of the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) that verapamil lowers the level of the protein TXNIP in pancreatic beta cells.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-announced-diabetes-drug-following-success-mice

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