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What You Don't Know About Fat; Fat Cells: The average person has 40 billion of them. They multiply, they're almost impossible to kill and they're sending messages to your body that can ruin your health.(Cover Story)
Byline: Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler (Graphic by Anne Underwood, Kevin Hand and Josh Ulick)
It was one of the biggest medical stories of the 1990s and, consequently, one of the biggest disappointments. In 1994, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York, working with mutant mice that grew to be three times the size of normal ones, discovered what made them different: the absence of a hormone they named "leptin." When injected with leptin the mice suddenly began eating less and shedding those unsightly grams. Not since Charles Atlas had there been such a convincing set of before-and-after pictures; to millions of people who secretly identified with the ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 15, 2004 700+ words
...16), Correspondent Anne Underwood and Senior Editor Jerry...understanding of how fat cells function and how such...mechanisms at work in fat cells is the first step in trying to disrupt them. Fat cells produce a half-dozen...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek August 23, 2004 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire May 23, 2005 700+ words
...that govern the genesis of calorie-burning fat cells. This discovery may lead to novel ways to...precursor cells give rise to mature brown fat cells. There are two main types of fat cells in the body -- white and brown. White fat...
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- Magazine article from: Science News Travis, J. January 31, 1998 700+ words
...rats, leptin triggers the animals' fat cells to commit suicide. While the details...in the human body. Leptin secreted by fat cells travels to the brain, where it seems...looked at whether leptin also induces fat cells to undergo apoptosis, an internal program...
- 'Baby' fat cells may be key to treating obesity, say UT Southwestern...
- Newspaper article from: Obesity & Diabetes Week October 13, 2008 700+ words
Immature, or "baby," fat cells lurk in the walls of the blood vessels...useful. For example, progenitor fat cells from the belly or thighs could be...called adult stem cells, create new fat cells in several situations, such as when...
- Converting white fat cells into brown could harbour obesity cure.
- News wire article from: Asian News International October 21, 2009 700+ words
...regulate the formation and inter-conversion of white fat cells and brown fat cells in mice-could solve the problem of obesity...found. According to recent data, the more brown fat cells a person has the lower their body mass-a finding...
- Fat cells fight disease.
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Business Week February 9, 2004 700+ words
...NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fat cells, commonly blamed for a number of diseases...Rather than contributing to disease, fat cells, or adipocytes, normally function as...comparative medicine program, report that pig fat cells respond to infections by producing hormone...
Source: HighBeam Research, What You Don't Know About Fat; Fat Cells: The average person has 40...