“…Previous in vitro and in vivo studies show naringin has antidiabetic activity, and almost all studies attribute that effect to its antioxidant property and its ability to counter oxidative stress [Meier et al, 2008;Pari and Suman, 2010;Liu et al, 2016;Nzuza et al, 2016;Ahmed et al, 2017;Lim et al, 2018]. Most of the studies show that naringin has a beneficial effect on diabetes through extrapancreatic mechanisms like reduced glucose absorption [Reshmi et al, 2017;Taslimi et al, 2017], regulation of hepatic enzyme dysfunction [Punithavathi et al, 2008;Sharma et al, 2011;Pu et al, 2012;Ahmed et al, 2017;Pari and Chandramohan, 2017] and improvement in peripheral resistance [Priscilla et al, 2015;Ahmed et al, 2017]. Available literature shows that naringin could increase insulin levels [Pari and Suman, 2010;Sharma et al, 2011;Ahmed et al, 2012;Pu et al, 2012;Priscilla et al, 2015;Lim et al, 2018] in diabetic animals, but the mechanism proposed for such an activity was rather a general antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, and antiapoptotic function.…”