How to get obese mice moving - and cure their diabetes
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 08:35
in Biology & Nature
Mice lacking the fat hormone leptin or the ability to respond to it become morbidly obese and severely diabetic - not to mention downright sluggish. Now, a new study in the June Cell Metabolism shows that blood sugar control in those animals can be completely restored by returning leptin sensitivity to a single class of neurones in the brain, which account for only a small fraction of those that normally carry the hormone receptors...