Activating brown fat tissue: First steps towards a new therapy for obesity, diabetes
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 10:40
in Health & Medicine
In recent decades, obesity has become a global problem. The disease goes hand in hand with a dramatic increase in the proportion of body fat. Researchers have now succeeded in inhibiting a protein in mice that hampers activation of the useful “brown fat” in obese mice. When treated with inhibitors against this protein, obese mice exhibited a notable improvement of their glucose metabolism.