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SUBMITTER: Heiss EH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3523387 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Planta medica 20120203 7
The inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is considered a valid strategy to combat insulin resistance and type II diabetes. We show here that a dichloromethane extract of Ratanhiae radix ( RR_EX) dose-dependently inhibits human recombinant PTP1B in vitro and enhances insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in murine myocytes. By determination of the PTP1B inhibiting potential of 11 recently isolated lignan derivatives from RR_EX, the observed activity of the extract could be partly ass ...[more]