NF-kB is an inflammation activation protein that seems to work in the liver. What does this have to with diabetes? Everything according to Evan David Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. You can find out why, by reading Some Further Inflammatory Remarks. To an endocrinologist, there …
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