The authors are in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Is diabetes a disease of the central nervous system? New data point in that direction. Alterations of the levels of long chain fatty acids in the hypothalamus are now shown to influence glucose homeostasis (pages 756−761).
