英国医学研究中心的科研人员认为用氯喹或类似药物可能成为治疗糖尿病的一个新途径。这些科研人员在动物实验中发现氯喹对胰岛素在肝内的降解有显著抑制作用,因而进行一项试验以便了解此药对正常自愿者及患轻度非胰岛素依赖型糖尿病者体内葡萄糖水平稳定性的影响。 Researchers at the British Medical Research Center believe that using chloroquine or similar drugs may be a new way to treat diabetes. These researchers found in animal experiments that chloroquine has a significant inhibitory effect on the degradation of insulin in the liver and therefore conducted a trial to understand the stability of the drug to glucose levels in normal volunteers and those with mild non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus influences.