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New Insights On How Insulin Causes Disease

  • December 10, 2003

Insulin, produced by beta cells in the pancreas, is best known for its role in regulating glucose levels in the bloodstream. However, insulin signaling also controls embryonic growth and development, reproduction, and appetite regulation. The widespread influence of insulin and the vulnerability of its signaling pathways to inhibition have tremendous potential to help us understand the basis of how many diseases that face mankind. I first became aware of the enormous influence of insulin...