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A drug-insensitive enzyme in the mouse gut strips 80% of metformin's glucose-lowering effect
A Northwestern-led team in Nature Metabolism places metformin's main action on mitochondrial complex I in intestinal cells, using mice given a substitute enzyme that does the same job but ignores the drug.
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