Hormone discovered that preserves insulin production and beta cell function in diabetes
Monday, July 2, 2012 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found protective, anti-diabetic functions for a hormone that, like insulin, is produced by the islet cells of the pancreas. The new hormone was found to stimulate insulin secretion from rat and human islet cells and protect islet cells in the presence of toxic, cell-killing factors used in the study.