The effects of a Kenyan antidiabetic plant on insulin homeostasis
The metabolic disorder diabetes; is a global epidemic affecting people in developed countries and increasingly in developing countries. In two decades time, 350 million people will be diabetic at the current rate of prevalence. In a preliminary study, insulin resistant rats were treated with Prunus...
Main Author: | Suleiman, Khairunisa Yahya |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1055 |
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