Common Allergy Drug Reduces Obesity And Diabetes In Mice
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
Two new studies connect the immune system with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the first study, researchers used two common over-the-counter allergy medications known to stabilize a group of inflammatory immune cells to reduce obesity and symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice. In the second study, researchers found that a kind of regulatory white blood cell once thought to manage only immune cells also controls inflammation in non-obese fat tissue.