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...d White. Diet, exercise and lower weight keep your peripheral tissues sensitive to insulin. That reduces the amount and duration of insulin secretion needed to keep your glucose under control when you eat. Therefore, the brain is exposed to less insulin. Since insulin turns on Irs2 in the brain, that means lowe...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...harles D. Mills, and Clifford J. Woolf Injury of peripheral axons results in a regenerative response from the central as well as the peripheral process of a dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neuron. This conditioning effect is mediated by altered tran...JCI table of contents -- July 26, 2007
...ymocyte development resulted in reduced numbers of peripheral T cells. In addition, the thymocytes in these animals were impaired in their ability to differentiate into Th1- or Th2-type cells, and as such Th1- and Th2-type inflammatory immune responses in the lung were also impaired. The authors went on to show...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
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