Baylor College of Medicine, U.S.
Ablation of ghrelin improves the diabetic but not obese phenotype of ob/ob mice
Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, July 15th, 2006
According to recent research from the United States, "Ghrelin and leptin are suggested to regulate energy homeostasis as mutual antagonists on hypothalamic neurons that regulate feeding behavior. We employed reverse genetics to investigate the interplay between ghrelin and leptin."
Y. Sun and colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine found, "Leptin-deficient mice (ob/ob) are hyperphagic, obese, and hyperglycemic. Unexpectedly, ablation of ghrelin in ob/ob mice fails to rescue the obese hyperphagic phenotype, indicating that the ob/ob phenotype is not a consequence of...
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