A gatekeeper against insulin resistance in the brain
(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) The brain plays a major role in controlling our blood glucose levels. In type 2 diabetes this glucose metabolism brain control is often dysfunctional. A group of scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum M ü nchen and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) have now shown in the 'Journal of Clinical Investigations' that in men a genetic variant of the gene DUSP8 can increase the risk for T2D by impairing our brain response to the hormone insulin.
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