Cause Of Insulin Resistance Discovered By UCSD Researchers

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrophages leads to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Their discovery may pave the way to novel drug development to fight the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity, the most prevalent metabolic disease worldwide. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Diabetes on November 7th, 2007