Last week in our Clinical Series we had an excerpt from International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Ed., looking at Beta-Cell response to nonglucose secretagogues. This text dealt with how the beta cells might be affected by more than just glucose. We are learning more about how fat. protein, and non-insulin peptides might have effects we had never …

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