Diabetic brains suffer from lack of cholesterol

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

Our brains are packed with cholesterol, almost all of which has to be produced within the brain itself, where it is critical for normal brain functions. Now, a new study in the December Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, reveals how that critical cholesterol synthesis in the brain is derailed in mice with diabetes...

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