Central control of glucose homeostasis: the brain–endocrine pancreas axis

B Thorens - Diabetes & metabolism, 2010 - Elsevier
A large body of data gathered over the last decades has delineated the neuronal pathways
that link the central nervous system with the autonomic innervation of the endocrine
pancreas, which controls alpha-and beta-cell secretion activity and mass. These are
important regulatory functions that are certainly keys for preserving the capacity of the
endocrine pancreas to control glucose homeostasis over a lifetime. Identifying the cells
involved in controlling the autonomic innervation of the endocrine pancreas, in response to …