Endocrine Abstracts

The discovery of the multiple endocrine functions of bone on the control of energy metabolism raised the question of whether several bone-derived hormones may exist that contribute to the regulation of metabolic functions such glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and energy expenditure, or whether they elicit a yet unanticipated endocrine function\. In response to this question a known hormone with a previously unidentified action was found to mediate a new metabolic functio...