Recycling of 'chauffeur protein' helps regulate fat production
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Studying a cycle of protein interactions needed to make fat, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a biological switch that regulates a protein that causes fatty liver disease in mice. Their findings, they report, may help develop drugs to decrease excessive fat production and its associated conditions in people, including fatty liver disease and diabetes.