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SOURCE: https://news.mit.edu/2016/fat-fighting-nanoparticles-obesity-0502 "Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed nanoparticles that can deliver antiobesity drugs directly to fat tissue. Overweight mice treated with these nanoparticles lost 10 percent of their body weight over 25 days, without showing any negative side effects. The drugs work by transforming white adipose tissue, which is ...
Abstract Objective: We undertook this study to determine the relationship among -174G>C and 598G>A polymorphisms in the promoter region of interleukin-6, obesity, and metabolic abnormalities in subjects from central Mexico. Methods: Included in the study were 150 subjects who were not first-degree relatives of patients with diabetes and 106 blood samples from the general population. ...
Abstract Objective: To investigate the relationship between alpha 1-antitrypsin (A1AT), adiponectin, leptin, blood glucose, and insulin protein levels in human serum and obesity. Methods: Forty-eight subjects with normal blood glucose levels and average age of 32.4+/-5.1 years were enrolled in this study. The study took place in the Reproductive Center, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, ...