ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2024
Imeglimin: the New Kid on the Block.
Review in Current diabetes reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and safety of imeglimin, a novel oral agent in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Potential of Triazines as Antidiabetic Agents-A Review of Structures and Pharmacological Activity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A Multicenter, Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of Imeglimin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Real-World Clinical Setting (INDI-TIMES Study).Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025Article
- Glucokinase activators and imeglimin: new weaponry in the armamentarium against type 2 diabetes.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2024Review
- Molecular Aspects in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes and Possible Preventive and Complementary Therapies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Managing Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus after Kidney Transplantation: Challenges and Advances in Treatment.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis review aims to collect all the data regarding imeglimin and present it as one of the options for managing diabetes. RECENT
findingsIt is a new drug that has recently been approved as an oral anti-diabetic drug, either as monotherapy or in combination with other oral antidiabetic drugs including insulin, with modest HbA1c reduction, and a fairly safe profile. Imeglimin was first approved in 2021 in Japan and China and is available in India from October 2022. Imeglimin is the first compound in a new class of oral anti-diabetic medications known as "glimins" that include a tetrahydrotriazine ring. Glimins act by amplifying glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) and preserving β-cell mass, leading to augmented insulin secretion. Furthermore, It also intensifies insulin action by inhibiting of hepatic glucose output and recovery of altered insulin signalling in both hepatocytes (liver) and myocytes (skeletal muscle). This is a unique mode of action than has been demonstrated to be distinct from other classes of drugs, as it targets both insulin secretion and insulin resistance by correcting the mitochondrial dysfunction. Imeglimin has been studied in various phase III trials which have equivocally shown it to be effective in lowering glucose levels and improving pancreatic function and its recommended dose set at 1000 mg bid.
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