Fat in all the wrong places

Jeffrey Friedman ()
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Jeffrey Friedman: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University

Nature, 2002, vol. 415, issue 6869, 268-269

Abstract: Obesity and a rare, congenital absence of fat cells are associated with damaging levels of fat in various tissues, and diabetes. Leptin helps to remedy these problems by causing oxidation of fatty acids in mitochondria.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/415268a

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