Brain’s Role in Diabetes
March 17, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
The simple explanation is that diabetes comes from insulin malfunction in the pancreas, but neurogastroenterologists, as those mentioned in this piece, know that the disease involves both the central and the enteric nervous systems where the peptide cholecystokinin is produced. This hormone influences appetite and anxiety. Collaborating researchers in the US and UK have now shown that the cholecystokinin-producing neurons of the parabrachial nucleus sense blood sugar levels and activate a regulating pathway. MORE
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