Fatty acids and beta-cell function

at the Third JDF World Conference on Diabetes Research held in Monaco in 1991 there was little, if any, mention of the role of fatty acids in pancreatic betacell function. However, this situation has now changed dramatically on the heels of two recent and simultaneousdevelopments. The first has to do with the notion that there is at work within the beta cell, just as in other tissues, an important element of glucose-fatty acid “cross-talk” which...