Saturday, August 2, 2014

Neuronal 'Sweet Spot' Provides Clues to Curbing Obesity

A new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals that preventing weight gain, obesity, and ultimately diabetes could be as simple as keeping a nuclear receptor from being activated in a small part of the brain. Published in the Aug. 1 issue of iThe Journal of Clinical Investigation/i (iJCI/i), the study showed that when the researchers blocked the effects of the nuclear receptor PPARgamma in a small number of brain cells in mice, the animals ate ...

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