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Journal of Diabetes Research
Volume 2015, Article ID 973287, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/973287
Research Article

Combination Therapy with Oleanolic Acid and Metformin as a Synergistic Treatment for Diabetes

Xue Wang,1 Yupeng Chen,1 Daoud Abdelkader,1 Waseem Hassan,1 Hongbin Sun,2 and Jun Liu1

1National Drug Screening Center and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tongjiaxiang, Nanjing 210009, China
2Center for Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tongjiaxiang, Nanjing 210009, China

Received 13 August 2014; Revised 13 December 2014; Accepted 15 December 2014

Academic Editor: Giuseppe Paolisso

Copyright © 2015 Xue Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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