--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Brandon Payne"
<payne_brandon_at_y...> wrote:
> I had read in the news section of Yahoo where a drug called
Exenatide
> shows promise. It is derived from lizard spit.
>
> Jim: Hey Des, come and hawk one into my shringe will ya.
>
> -Brandon Payne
Exenatide is a peptide that shows promise in treating type II
diabetes. Wrong type of diabetes as far as Jim would be concerned.
Jim is a type I, IIRC.
Much easier to find a drug to treat type II diabetes, which is
usually caused by insulin resistance, itself usually age or obesity
related. Type I is caused by a lack of production of insulin by the
islet cells of the pancreas, usually because they're dead or
nonfunctional, not because of insulin resistance.
Received on Tue Aug 26 2003 - 13:23:42 CDT