Insulin resistance from binge drinking: it's all in your head.
Binge alcohol exposure impairs hepatic insulin action by blunting insulin receptor signaling in the brain and enables the identification of a therapeutic target that may help treat alcohol-induced insulin resistance (Lindtner et al., this issue).
Department of Psychology and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, USA. thiele@unc.edu
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