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Link Found Between Insulin Doses and Atherosclerotic Lesions
Published: Friday, February 17, 2012
 
Insulin doses may help repair atherosclerotic lesions in diabetic patients, according to a study in the February issue of The American Journal of Pathology. Insulin applied in therapeutic doses selectively stimulated the formation of new elastic fibers in cultures of human aortic smooth muscle cells.

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