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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered how insulin crosses the capillary endothelium to exit blood vessels and stimulate skeletal muscle cells — a major finding that may lead to new ways to reverse insulin resistance, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes.

The next installment of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Enabling Innovations Initiative (eI2) speaker series is set for Friday, February 2nd at 3PM in Light Hall 214.  eI2 is SOM’s new program to promote a culture of innovations and dissemination of new knowledge and discovery through entrepreneurial pathways.  The February 2nd Seminar will feature Dr.

Blocking a nerve-cell receptor in part of the brain that coordinates movement could improve the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, dyskinesia and other movement disorders, researchers at Vanderbilt University have reported.

Their findings, published recently in the journal Neuron, focus on M4, a subtype of the muscarinic acetylcholine family of nerve cell (neuron) receptors activated by binding the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.