Starvation hormone makes for small mice
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
Chronically high levels of a recently discovered starvation hormone markedly stunt the growth of mice, reveals a new study in the July issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The liver-produced hormone known as FGF21 does so by causing the mice to become resistant to growth hormone...
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