Obesity: GDF15 tells the brain to lose weight
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 827 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.241
Author: M. Teresa Villanueva
Obesity treatments that do not involve invasive surgery are greatly needed. Now, a team of scientists from Amgen provide evidence that harnessing the activity of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15; also known as MIC1) can lower the body weight of obese mice and monkeys through
Source: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: M. Teresa Villanueva Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
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