Latest Adipose tissue Stories
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive prostate disease. New research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine, finds that the fat surrounding the prostate of overweight or obese men with prostate cancer provides a favorable environment to promote cancer growth. Fat is a generally underrated organ. Not only is it an energy store but...
Revolution Laboratories, an up and coming leader in health nutrition, announced today a new product. Revolutionary Raspberry Keytone is a diet supplement aimed at increasing fat burning in order to aid weight loss. Solana Beach, CA (PRWEB) September 24, 2012 President of Revolution Laboratories, Terry Acher, excitedly announced their new product today. Revolutionary Raspberry Keytone is a new supplement aimed at increasing weight loss through the burning of fat. Raspberry ketone is a...
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zafgen, Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to addressing the unmet needs of severely obese patients, today announced new data from two Phase 1b studies of beloranib, a selective inhibitor of methionine aminopeptidase 2 (MetAP2), which showed rapid weight loss, reductions in body fat, and improvements in cardiovascular disease risk markers in severely obese women. These results were achieved with both the intravenous (IV)...
In the body's ongoing effort to maintain a healthy weight, an arsenal of cellular proteins called androgen receptors is critical for blocking fat accumulation. Now researchers reporting in the September issue of the Cell Press Journal Chemistry & Biology have discovered that naturally occurring steroids called glucocorticoids can thwart the receptors' activity, ultimately encouraging fat buildup. "This has implications in this era of an obesity epidemic," says senior author Dr. Michael...
The androgen receptor in human cells inhibits fat accumulation, but its activity can be sabotaged by glucocorticoids, steroids that regulate fat deposition and are known drivers of obesity and insulin resistance, said researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in a report in the journal Chemistry & Biology (https://www.cell.com/chemistry-biology/home). "The project started with a straightforward search for genes or signals specific to human fat cells," said...
The absence of a specific type of neuron in the brain can lead to obesity and diabetes in mice report researchers in The EMBO Journal. The outcome, however, depends on the type of diet that the animals are fed. A lack of AgRP-neurons, brain cells known to be involved in the control of food intake, leads to obesity if mice are fed a regular carbohydrate diet. However, animals that are deficient in AgRP-neurons but which are raised on a high-fat diet are leaner and healthier. The differences...
Kyle Leon's Customized Fat Loss Program which claims to be the "evolution" of natural fat loss, has been reviewed by Dietsandfitnessguides.com. Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) September 09, 2012 "Kyle Leon's Customized Fat Loss has become a very popular diet program in the past few months since it's release," reports Vince Delmonico from http://dietsandfitnessguides.com. "It's a truly unique program because rather than just being a guide book or some videos,...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Two different studies by European and US researchers concluded that obese adults who are otherwise physically fit had no greater risk of dying prematurely than those with a normal body mass index (BMI), according to research partially funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and soft-drink maker Coca-Cola. The findings show there is a subset of obese people who are metabolically healthy, with no symptoms of insulin...
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean researchers, reporting the results of a major study in the Circulation Journal, found that the transplantation adipose (fat) derived stem cells resulted in the regeneration of blood vessels in patients who were otherwise expecting to receive limb amputations due to damaged arteries and lack of blood circulation. Researchers at Pusan National University, led by Dr. Han Cheol Lee, describe how patients with critical limb...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new study with rats found that what babies consume after birth can predict whether the child will be at risk for obesity in the future. To begin, the researchers from Johns Hopkins University discovered that rats of mothers who had diets high in fat, but who were given diets with normal levels of fat didn’t suffer obesity or other related disorders as adult rats. However, baby rats that were given a normal-fat diet while in the...
