Long-acting insulin helps people with diabetes maintain normal blood sugar levels throughout the day. Unlike short-acting insulin, it never peaks, keeping an even sugar level in your blood. When you ...

Insulin is a protein chain or peptide hormone. There are 51 amino acids in an insulin molecule. It has a molecular weight of 5808 Da. Insulin is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.

After the discovery of insulin in 1921 (Milestone 1), the use of porcine or bovine insulin to control blood glucose levels in individuals with diabetes became widespread and saved many lives. However, ...

In this review, I focus on recent studies using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) that have implicated ectopic lipid accumulation in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in muscle and the liver ...