How To Get Obese Mice Moving -- And Cure Their Diabetes
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
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 shows that blood sugar control in those animals can be completely restored by returning leptin sensitivity to a single class of neurons in the brain, which account for only a small fraction of those that normally carry the hormone receptors.
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