Obesity Therapy
Researchers from Kyung-Hee University, College of Oriental Medicine provide details of new studies and findings in the area of obesity therapy
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 22nd, 2008
Fresh data on obesity are presented in the report 'Uncoupled protein 3 and p38 signal pathways are involved in anti-obesity activity of Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Bora Valley.' "This study was undertaken to elucidate the anti-obesity mechanism of a new purple potato variety that has been used for the prevention of metabolic diseases as a folk remedy in Korea. Proliferation assay, differentiation assay, Western blotting, were performed in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, while blood chemistry for hyperlipidemic parameters, measurement of body weight and abdominal fats, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis, magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanning were carried out in high fat...
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