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Birnbaum MJ
Department of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Almost always, obesity is an obligate prerequisite for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Loss of a well-known lipid phosphatase appears to prevent insulin-resistant diabetes in mice by removal of a positive regulator of adiposity.
Published 1 August 2005 in Cell Metab, 1(2): 90-2.
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