Not All Cells Respond The Same Way To Insulin

One of the characteristic features of the disease type 2 diabetes is the inability of cells of the body to respond to the hormone insulin, something known as insulin resistance. One of the effects of insulin resistance, high levels of glucose circulating in the blood, was more pronounced in the mice in which the receptor for insulin was eliminated in all cells of the body than in the mice in which the receptor for insulin was only eliminated in the cells outside the brain.

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