Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Insulin: a Journey Across the Blood-brain Barrier

Overview

Journal Diabetes

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2008 Aug 30

PMID 18753671

Citations 32

Authors

Robert S Sherwin

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