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Compositions and methods are disclosed for the treatment of diabetes and related diseases using peptides with incretin hormone activity. Preferably, the peptide with incretin hormone activity is GLP-1, exendin or an analog of GLP-1 or exendin. The peptides with incretin hormone activity are administered transepithelially using a transepithelial carrier peptide. The transepithelial peptide contains sufficient amino, guanidine or amidino groups to stimulate transepithelial delivery. In some embodiments, the transepithelial carrier and the peptide with incretin hormone activity are embedded in a pressure sensitive adhesive layer of a plaster or patch.

By using (1) a G protein-coupled receptor protein having the same or substantially the same amino acid sequence as the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or its salt and (2) a fatty acid or an eicosanoid, a compound or its salt that can change the binding properties of the receptor protein or its salt to the fatty acid or the eicosanoid can be screened efficiently.

The invention disclosed comprises a method for administering the antidiabetic drug glipizide to a patient in need of glipizide in need of antidiabetic therapy.

There are provided novel pyrimidine derivatives which has been fused with an aromatic heterocycle selected from thiophene, thiazole and pyridine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compound as an active ingredient. These compounds exhibit excellent promoting activity on insulin secretion and activity against hyperglycemia. Hence, the pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds as active ingredients, based on these actions, are useful for treating and/or preventing insulin-dependent diabetes (type 1 diabetes), non-insulin-dependent diabetes (type 2 diabetes), insulin-resistant diseases, obesity, and the like.

The present invention relates to a method for promoting expression of insulin receptor substrate-2, comprising administering an effective amount of plasminogen to a subject; furthermore, the present invention relates to a medicament for promoting expression of insulin receptor substrate-2.

The invention is directed to methods for identifying candidate beta cell-sensitizing compounds comprising providing a pancreatic beta islet cell population derived from a diabetic subject, contacting the beta islet cell population with one or more somatostatin receptor 5-binding compounds, and identifying those somatostatin receptor 5-binding compounds that promote insulin secretion from the pancreatic beta islet cell population at a higher rate than from a control cell population. The invention is further directed to methods for treating type II diabetes comprising administering a beta cell-sensitizing compound identified by the first method of the invention to a diabetic patient in need of treatment.

The invention provides, inter alia, fatty acyl hydroxy fatty acid (FAHFA; a novel class of estolide-related molecules) and diagnostic and treatment methods for a variety of disorders—including diabetes-related disorders, Metabolic Syndrome, polycyctic ovarian syndrome, cancer, and inflammatory disorders using them; as well as methods of screening for additional compounds that are useful in treating these disorders and/or that modulate FAHFA levels, FAHFA-mediated signaling, and FAHFA-mediated biological effects.

Insulin producing β cells are found in three dimensional (3D) structures, the Islet of Langerhans. The 3D structure is required for normal β cell function and survival. β cell pseudoislets (PIs) are useful for study of β cell physiology. Co-culturing of primary human islets and β cell lines together with islet-derived epithelial cells can improve β cell function and survival and maintain the cells' 3D structure, resulting a rapid and spontaneous formation of free-floating PIs. β cells in PIs were similar in size to native islets and showed increased percentage of pro-insulin-positive cells, increased insulin gene expression in response to glucose stimulation, improved glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, and reduced β cell death. Key ECM proteins, absent in monolayer β cells, are deposited by iECs in and round the PIs. iEC induced PIs are a useful tool for examining β-cell/iEC interactions and studying β-cell function in a native 3D configuration.

The invention discloses a use of a statin compound in the preparation of local drugs for improving lipid metabolism and treating obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver and hyperglycemia; and statin compound local compositions for improving lipid metabolism and treating obesity, hypertension, fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, apoplexy and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and drug formulation and preparation method thereof.

The present application relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of an FXR agonist and at least one additional therapeutic agent that lowers the glucose level in the blood, stimulates insulin secretion, and/or increases insulin sensitivity. The present application relates to use of the pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of a FXR mediated disease or condition, such as NAFLD and NASH, a disease or condition related to an elevated level of glucose in the blood, decreased secretion of insulin, and/or decreased insulin sensitivity such as hyperglycemia, diabetes, obesity, and insulin resistance, or for lowering the glucose level in the blood, stimulating insulin secretion, and/or increasing insulin sensitivity.

Derivatives of glucagon-like peptide I (GLP-1) and especially GLP-1(7-36) have been found to have insulinotropic activity. The invention pertains to the use of GLP-1(7-36) for the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus.