Metformin: historical overview

By C. Bailey. Diabetologia, 2017

908 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

1. Sriram Gubbi
2. Gerald I. Shulman
3. Nir Barzilai
4. Ameya Sadguru Kulkarni
5. Traci E LaMoia

In Molecular Biology

1. Sriram Gubbi
2. Gerald I. Shulman
3. Nir Barzilai
4. Ameya Sadguru Kulkarni
5. Traci E LaMoia
6. Ralph DeFronzo

Citations in the corpus

• Benefits of Metformin in Attenuating the Hallmarks of Aging (2020, background): “Metformin was introduced to the world in 1957, as an antihyperglycemic agent by the French physician Jean Sterne, and today, it has become one of the most commonly used pharmaceutical interventions and the most prescribed glucose-lowering medication, worldwide (Bailey 2017).”
• Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Metformin Action (2020, background): “Metformin (1,1-dimethylbiguanide) originates from Galega officinalis , also known as the French lilac, a plant that has been used in folk medicine for centuries (4, 5).”