Healthy Blood Vessels May Prevent Fat Growth

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

Cells lining blood vessels may perform an unsuspected task -- controlling the development of fat cells. Researchers found that precursor or stem cells have a markedly reduced tendency to develop into fat cells when placed in direct contact with healthy endothelial cells, which are the cells that line blood vessels.

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