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Protective effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate on alloxan induced diabetes in mice
G Pierrefiche1, G Topall, I Henriet
1Laboratoire d'Eutonologie, Hopital Boucicaut, Paris, France.
Research Communications in Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) administered to mice prior to alloxan antagonizes its diabetogenic action in a dose dependent fashion and up to 96 hours after injection. Results are discussed on the basis of free radical formation by alloxan and of the metabolic property of GHB which is known to increase the rate of operation of the pentose phosphate pathway.