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ReviewBiomedicines2022

Exploring New Drug Targets for Type 2 Diabetes: Success, Challenges and Opportunities.

Abhinav Kanwal, Navjot Kanwar, Sanjay Bharati, Prateek Srivastava, Shailendra P Singh, Salomon Amar

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Review in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Abhinav KanwalDepartment of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda 151001, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6814-3011
Navjot KanwarUniversity Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UGC Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India.
Sanjay BharatiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Manipal College of Health Professions (MCHP), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Manipal, Manipal 576104, India.
Prateek SrivastavaChitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura 140401, India.
Shailendra P SinghDepartment of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2996-0374
Salomon AmarDepartment of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
New York Medical College · USAll India Institute of Medical Sciences · INChitkara University · INManipal Academy of Higher Education · INPanjab University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are substantial shortcomings in the drugs currently available for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The global diabetic crisis has not abated despite the introduction of new types of drugs and targets. Persistent unaddressed patient needs remain a significant factor in the quest for new leads in routine studies. Drug discovery methods in this area have followed developments in the market, contributing to a recent rise in the number of molecules. Nevertheless, troubling developments and fresh challenges are still evident. Recently, metformin, the most widely used first-line drug for diabetes, was found to contain a carcinogenic contaminant known as N-nitroso dimethylamine (NDMA). Therefore, purity and toxicity are also a big challenge for drug discovery and development. Moreover, newer drug classes against SGLT-2 illustrate both progress and difficulties. The same was true previously in the case of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors. Furthermore, researchers must study the importance of mechanistic characteristics of novel compounds, as well as exposure-related hazardous aspects of current and newly identified protein targets, in order to identify new pharmacological molecules with improved selectivity and specificity.

Indexed as

diabetes mellitusdrug developmentdrug discoverylead moleculesnew targetstype 2 diabetes

Identifiers

PMID35203540
PMCPMC8869656
OpenAlexW4210338558

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