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Acarbose [1] [2] is an anti-diabetic drug used to treat diabetes mellitus type 2 and, in some countries, prediabetes. It is a generic sold in Europe and China as Glucobay , in North America as Precose (Bayer Pharmaceuticals), and in Canada as Prandase . Acarbose is a starch blocker.
Acarbose is an oligosaccharide, whereas miglitol resembles a monosaccharide. Miglitol is fairly well absorbed by the body, as opposed to acarbose. Moreover, acarbose inhibits pancreatic alpha-amylase in addition to alpha-glucosidase, and is degraded by gut bacterial maltogenic alpha-amylase and cyclomaltodextrinase. [4] [5]
Valienamine is a C-7 aminocyclitol found as a substructure of pseudooligosaccharides such as the antidiabetic drug acarbose [1] and the antibiotic validamycin. It can be found in Actinoplanes species. [2] It is an intermediate formed by microbial degradation of validamycins. [3]
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Acarviosin is part of the potent α-amylase inhibitor acarbose and its derivatives. Acarviosin is a product of the degradation of acarbose by gut microbiota, the glycoside hydrolase from gut bacteria Lactobacillus plantarum is able to hydrolyze acarbose to maltose and acarviosin. [1]
In 2023, it was approved in China by the National Medical Products Administration for blood glucose control for adult patients with type 2 diabetes. [4] References