Discovery of Hormone Offers Hope for Obesity Drug
By Armen Hareyan G+ Nov 13 2005 - 8:38pm
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Obesity Treatment
When the appetite-enhancing hormone ghrelin was discovered a few years ago, researchers thought they had found the last of the major genes that regulate weight.
They were wrong.
Introducing: obestatin, a newly discovered hormone that suppresses appetite.
The finding, published in the Nov. 11 issue of Science, offers a key to researchers developing treatments for obesity. In a nation that desperately needs to slim down - the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 65 percent of Americans over the age of 20 are either overweight or obese - obestatin is likely to generate interest from scientists and drugmakers alike.
The research was sponsored by Johnson
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