Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer's Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Craft, Suzanne (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Endocrinology.; Geriatrics.; Biomedicine.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.

Neurons share more similarities with insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells than with any other cell type. The root of this similarity may lie in the islet’s evolution from an ancestral insulin-producing neuron. The islet-neuron connection becomes less surprising as we learn more about insulin’s i...