Connecting Diabetes, Atherosclerosis and Vitamin D (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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In a new study of mice without vitamin D receptors on key immune system cells, Washington University researchers have found that the mice get diabetes and that the way the immune cells behave without vitamin D could potentially provide some new targets for therapy for people who have diabetes and atherosclerosis. Jim Dryden has more...

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