Glucose 'Control Switch' in the Brain Key to Both Types of Diabetes (IMAGE)

Yale University

Glucose 'Control Switch' in the Brain Key to Both Types of Diabetes

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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism in part of the brain that is key to sensing glucose levels in the blood, linking it to both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

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