Saturday, October 23, 2010
Molecule That Makes Obese People Develop Diabetes Discovered
A new European study has shown that obese people have large amounts of the chemokine molecule CXCL5, produced by certain cells in fatty tissue, and it is this molecule that researchers feel will cause an obese person to develop Type II Diabetes.
'Chronic inflammation of the adipose tissue, which is characteristic of obese people, is a crucial stage in the development of insulin resistance and Type II Diabetes", Lluis Fajas, lead author of the study and a researcher at the
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