Diabetes Mellitus A risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakabeppu, Yusaku (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ninomiya, Toshiharu (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1128
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Diabetes.; Neurology .; Neurology.

This book describes the precise mechanisms by which insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus (DM) act as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). It opens by discussing the de novo synthesis of insulin in the brain and its functional significance with regard to glucose metabolism and maintena...