University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Recent studies from Germany, the United States and France add new data to obesity research
Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, August 30th, 2006
Study 1: Leptin gene expression is weight-course dependent and ghrelin gene expression is constitutional in obese subjects undergoing weight reduction.
Investigators in Germany recently conducted a study "to determine how leptin and ghrelin are expressed in the adipose tissues of obese adults undergoing gastric banding (LAGB), and to correlate tissue expression with serum concentrations and parameters of the metabolic syndrome."
I. Knerr and colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg conducted "a cross-sectional analysis of 92 patients:...
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