Herbal extract of gynostemma pentaphyllum decreases hepatic glucose output in type 2 diabetic goto-kakizaki rats.

The aim of the study was to explore the effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum (GP) extract on hepatic glucose output (HGO) in spontaneously type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats treated orally with GP or placebo extract 1600 mg/kg daily, during three days or three weeks. The three-week treatment of GP, but not three-day treatment, significantly reduced plasma glucose (PG) levels from 9.8 ± 0.

Aurantimonas frigidaquae sp. nov., isolated from a water-cooling system.

A motile, short rod-shaped and yellow-pigmented bacterium, designated strain CW5T, was isolated from a water-cooling system at Gwangyang, Republic of Korea. Cells were Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic and catalase- and oxidase-positive. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1omega7c (64.