Wiring the Brain with Insulin
- 18 April 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 300 (5618), 440-441
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1084513
Abstract
The activities of insulin in regulating glucose levels and controlling many other physiological processes are well documented. Surprisingly, as Dickson comments in his Perspective, insulin has now been found to participate in guiding photoreceptor cell axons from the retina to the brain during development of the visual system in the fruit fly ( Song et al.).Keywords
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