New Treatment For Diabetes? Leptin's Long-distance Call To The Pancreas

Monday, December 22, 2008 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

A new study boosts researchers' hopes of using osteocalcin to treat diabetes. Researchers show, the fat-derived hormone leptin enlists the sympathetic nervous system to prevent bone-making cells from releasing a molecule that prods the pancreas to discharge insulin.

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