Researchers find brain insulin plays critical role in the development of diabetes
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a novel function of brain insulin, indicating that impaired brain insulin action may be the cause of the unrestrained lipolysis that initiates and worsens type 2 diabetes in humans. The research is published this month in the journal Cell Metabolism.