Review: Miglitol has potential as a therapeutic drug against obesity

The number of obese patients has increased annually worldwide. Therefore, there is a strong need to develop a new effective and safe anti-obesity drug. Miglitol is an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor (αGI) that is commonly used as an anti-diabetic drug, and there is growing evidence that it also has anti...

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Main Authors: Sugimoto, Satoru, Nakajima, Hisakazu, Kosaka, Kitaro, Hosoi, Hajime
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666030/