Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Oral Hypoglycemic Agents: α-Glucosidase Inhibitors

Oral Hypoglycemic Agents: α-Glucosidase Inhibitors

α-glucosidase inhibitors, including acarbose (Precose), miglitol (Glyset), and voglibose (Voglib) (primarily available in Asia), are drugs that control blood sugar levels by delaying the digestion of starch and disaccharides. They achieve this by inhibiting α-glucosidase enzymes in the intestine, which slow the absorption of carbohydrates in the intestine, which in turn leads to a prolonged release of the glucoregulatory hormone GLP-1 from intestinal L-cells.
Acarbose and miglitol are...

Glucose Transporters

Glucose Transporters

Glucose transporters facilitate the transport of glucose across the cell membrane. In addition to glucose, some glucose transporters can also aid the movement of other hexoses such as fructose, mannose, and galactose.
Facilitated diffusion-glucose transporters (GLUTs) are encoded by the solute-linked carrier (SLC) family 2, subfamily A gene family, or SLC2A. The 14 GLUT protein members are distributed into three classes:

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Dynamic aspects of AMPs in the kidney in physiological conditions--their metabolism and turnover.

Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie·1992

Same author

[Activity of Enterococcus faecalis (FK-23) preparation as a biological response modifier].

Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan·1992

Same author

[Clinical study on the time courses of serum myosin light chain I levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction: effect of intracoronary thrombolysis on serum myosin light chain I levels].

Kaku igaku. The Japanese journal of nuclear medicine·1992

Same author

Different patterns of cell volume regulation in hyposmotic media between attached and suspended HeLa cells.

Biochimica et biophysica acta·1992

Same author

Epitope homology between bacterial heat shock protein and self-proteins in the host cell.

APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica·1992

Same author

A study on bone induction in hydroxyapatite combined with bone morphogenetic protein.

Plastic and reconstructive surgery·1992

Same journal

Concomitant short-term ingestion of fucoidan improves the initial inflammation and immune dysfunction caused by a high-fat diet.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

Same journal

Structural Elucidation of Micro-Scale Natural Products through Analytical and Synthetic Approaches.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

Same journal

A novel paraprobiotic strain, Lentilactobacillus hilgardii H-50 enhances intestinal IgA production via TLR2-dependent IL-6 induction driven by its cell surface components.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

Same journal

Sphingolipid diversity and profiling in selected Caryophyllales species.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

Same journal

Identification of aurodox as a plant immunity inducer against suspension culture cells of Arabidopsis thaliana from Ōmura natural product library.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

Same journal

TORC1 inactivation induces a noncanonical, separase-independent cohesin degradation.

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Mar 19, 2026

Author Spotlight: Streamlining Rice Breeding with CRISPR/Cas for Obtaining Optimal Phenotypic and Agronomic Traits

Author Spotlight: Streamlining Rice Breeding with CRISPR/Cas for Obtaining Optimal Phenotypic and Agronomic Traits

Published on: January 3, 2025

Thai Rice Seed α-Glucosidase and Its Specificity

T Eksittikul¹, O Svendsby¹, H Yamaguchi^1,2

¹a Deparment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science , Mahidol University , Bangkok 10400 , Thailand.

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry

|June 18, 2016

Summary

No abstract available in PubMed .

More Related Videos

Author Spotlight: Integrating Biochemical Functions of β-Glucanases and Peroxidase Enzymes in Wheat-RWA Interaction

Author Spotlight: Integrating Biochemical Functions of β-Glucanases and Peroxidase Enzymes in Wheat-RWA Interaction

Published on: July 26, 2024

Transverse Sectioning of Mature Rice Oryza sativa L. Kernels for Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging Using Pipette Tips as Immobilization Support

Transverse Sectioning of Mature Rice Oryza sativa L. Kernels for Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging Using Pipette Tips as Immobilization Support

Published on: January 25, 2022

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Mar 19, 2026

Author Spotlight: Streamlining Rice Breeding with CRISPR/Cas for Obtaining Optimal Phenotypic and Agronomic Traits

Author Spotlight: Streamlining Rice Breeding with CRISPR/Cas for Obtaining Optimal Phenotypic and Agronomic Traits

Published on: January 3, 2025

Author Spotlight: Integrating Biochemical Functions of β-Glucanases and Peroxidase Enzymes in Wheat-RWA Interaction

Author Spotlight: Integrating Biochemical Functions of β-Glucanases and Peroxidase Enzymes in Wheat-RWA Interaction

Published on: July 26, 2024

Transverse Sectioning of Mature Rice Oryza sativa L. Kernels for Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging Using Pipette Tips as Immobilization Support

Transverse Sectioning of Mature Rice Oryza sativa L. Kernels for Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging Using Pipette Tips as Immobilization Support

Published on: January 25, 2022