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.

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