Obese monkeys lose weight on drug that attacks blood supply of fat cells
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Obese rhesus monkeys lost on average 11 percent of their body weight after four weeks of treatment with an experimental drug that selectively destroys the blood supply of fat tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in Science Translational Medicine.