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Article: Obesity reversed in mice by destroying blood vessels that service fat cells.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- June 5, 2004
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2004 JUN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have designed a strategy to treat obesity through "molecular liposuction." The therapy destroys blood vessels supporting fat accumulation, causing the fat to rapidly break down and disappear.
In the study, published in the June 2004 issue of Nature Medicine, it took only weeks of treatment by an experimental drug to restore the normal weight of mice that had doubled their size by eating a high-fat "cafeteria" diet.
Although the work has only been conducted in animals, the authors said it may one day lead to the development of targeted therapies to ...