date:Jan 07, 2013
energy, and the body thinks it needs to store energy, Jorge Moscat, lead author of the study, said.
Its a double whammy, he said.
Mr. Moscat, who led the study with collaborators at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen in Germany and the University of Cincinnati, had previously produced mice that completely lack the p62 protein in them. As a result, the animals were obese. They also had metabolic syndrome. In other words, as compared to mice with p62, mice lacking p62 weighed more, exhausted less energy