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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It sounds like a magic bullet: Administer a protein, watch the subject lose weight.
But that’s exactly what University of Florida scientists found when they discovered a new way to deliver a protein that helps develop cells that convert fat into energy.
The study builds upon on a discovery by Bruce Spiegelman, a cell biologist at the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who found that human muscles release a hormone he called irisin during exercise. Spiegelman also found that mice lost a small amount of weight when given the irisin gene using a virus to ferry it into cells.
Now the UF team — including researcher Dr. Li-Jun Yang, Shi-Wu Li, and postdoctoral researcher William Donelan — has for the first time created a stable protein form of irisin, opening the door to human studies that weren’t previously possible because the virus has not been approved for use in people.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ntial-for-weight-loss-diabetes-treatment.html
But that’s exactly what University of Florida scientists found when they discovered a new way to deliver a protein that helps develop cells that convert fat into energy.
The study builds upon on a discovery by Bruce Spiegelman, a cell biologist at the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who found that human muscles release a hormone he called irisin during exercise. Spiegelman also found that mice lost a small amount of weight when given the irisin gene using a virus to ferry it into cells.
Now the UF team — including researcher Dr. Li-Jun Yang, Shi-Wu Li, and postdoctoral researcher William Donelan — has for the first time created a stable protein form of irisin, opening the door to human studies that weren’t previously possible because the virus has not been approved for use in people.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metaboli...ntial-for-weight-loss-diabetes-treatment.html