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Research Progress in Bioactive Peptides with Hypoglycemic Function

  

  • Received:2011-06-01 Revised:2012-05-07 Online:2012-05-15 Published:2012-05-07

Abstract: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the major threats to human health in the 21st century. All over the world there have been more than 200 million diabetic patients. Recently, many bioactive peptides derived from animals, insects and the human body have been reported as new hypoglycemic functional factors, which are more safety and have fewer side effects when compared with traditional treatments and accordingly are expected to be developed as functional foods or drugs that can prevent or even cure diabetes. In this paper, the recent research progress and applications of various types of hypoglycemic peptides are described.

Key words: bioactive peptides, diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemic function

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