New Mechanism Discovered for Controlling Blood Sugar Level

New Mechanism Discovered for Controlling Blood Sugar Level: According to Professor Andrew Tobin (University of Leicester, UK), in order to maintain the correct levels of sugar, a protein, called the M3-muscarinic receptor, present on the cells that release insulin in the pancreas, has to be active and also needs to undergo a specific change. This change triggers insulin release and the control of blood sugar levels. Without the change in the M3-muscarinic receptor protein, sugar levels go up. “We are of course testing if the mechanism of controlling sugar levels we have discovered is one of the mechanisms disrupted in diabetes. If this were the case then our studies would have important implications in diabetes.” PNAS