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Mannkind: Overlooked Biotech With Excellent Prospects (Part II)

"the big question is... what is the unmet medical need being addressed with an inhaled insulin?"

TI is not just an inhaled insulin like Exubra. It delivers monometric insulin which mimics the pancreas and provides instantaneous short term response as opposed to hexametric insulin (oral or inhaled or injected) which supplies slow acting long term response. TI will be used to provide instantaneous response to meals so that injected or oral hexametric insulin used to control background glucose levels can be aimed at a much lower target glucose level. This eliminates the need to maintain an artificially high glucose background level just to help with instantaneous impacts of meal events.