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Study Boosts Scientists’ Hope For Using Osteocalcin To Treat Diabetes

Rube Goldberg would have smiled at one of leptin’s mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists the sympathetic nervous system to prevent bone-making cells from releasing a molecule that prods the pancreas to discharge insulin. The clinical study appeared online December 22, 2008.

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Topics: insulin, study, scientists, leptin, fat, hormone, cells, research, pancreas, diabetes

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