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Nature 391, 846-847 (26 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35998
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Joseph Avruch1
Human type 2 diabetes is almost always accompanied by defects in both the responsiveness to insulin (which is commonly called insulin resistance) and the secretion of insulin. The result is hyperglycaemia — an excess of glucose in the bloodstream.
- Joseph Avruch is in the Diabetes Unit, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 Blossom Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
e-mail: Email: avruch@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
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