A Nervous Breakdown that May Stop Autoimmune Diabetes

Madina Makhmutova; Rayner Rodriguez-Diaz; Alejandro Caicedo

doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2020.01.003

A Nervous Breakdown that May Stop Autoimmune Diabetes

Cell Metab. 2020 Feb 4;31(2):215-216. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.01.003.

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Madina Makhmutova¹, Rayner Rodriguez-Diaz², Alejandro Caicedo³

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¹ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Program in Neuroscience, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
² Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
³ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Program in Neuroscience, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Electronic address: acaicedo@med.miami.edu.

Abstract

Neuromodulation is a promising new therapeutic avenue to treat chronic diseases. A paper that appeared recently in Nature Biotechnology (Guyot et al., 2019) now provides a roadmap for how to establish electrostimulation of nerves to delay or even prevent type 1 diabetes.

A Nervous Breakdown that May Stop Autoimmune Diabetes

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