gestational diabetes
Gestational Diabetes Discovery Key to Beta Cell Growth and Regeneration Efforts
In Nature Medicine last June, the Justine K Schreyer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research, Michael German, MD, reported that he and his team have solved an age-old question in diabetes, “How does the onset of pregnancy enable a woman to double the number of islets in her pancreas?”
His team’s answer to this question is serotonin, a hormone produced from the amino acid tryptophan, found in high-protein foods.