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Why is leptin ignored in obese people and animals?

January 8, 2006

As many of you know, leptin is the signal released from fat cells that relays a message to the brain that the fat cells are 'full' and it's time to stop eating. It has also been discovered that leptin works

Mighty muscles

December 13, 2005

Myostatin normally keeps muscles from growing. Scientist are trying to inhibit myostatin as a therapeutic approach for kids with muscular dystrophy; this strategy has just entered clinical trials using an antibody that sops up the myostatin. Working with Wyeth (say

Narrowing down the genetic region responsible for PWS

December 1, 2005

Below you'll find the abstract for a newly published paper trying to narrow down exactly which DNA sequences in the PW region of chromosome 15 are responsible for PWS. Here, the authors investigate a patient who meets the diagnostic criteria

Refining the genetic region critical for PWS

August 20, 2005

Below is a link to recently published paper from Dr. Francke's group at Stanford Univ. You might recall that Dr. Francke received an FPWR grant in the first funding cycle (2003), and the work in this publication was supported by

Increased number of ghrelin producing cells in PWS

July 9, 2005

Here is an article in which the authors investigated why people with PWS have high levels of ghrelin in their blood. They wondered if perhaps it had something to do with growth hormone (GH) deficiency, which is common in PWS.

Ghrelin in PWS and 'hypothalamic obesity'

March 21, 2005

Two recent papers look at the obesity due to hypothalamic damage (hypothalamic obesity-HO, which can occur, for example, after treatment for a brain tumor), and one directly compares that condition to PWS. Based on these papers (abstract link below) it

Another ghrelin knockout mouse

May 24, 2004

Below is an abstract of a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) discussing a new mouse model in which they have completely deleted the ghrelin gene. (you'll recall that individuals with PWS frequently

Clinical trial of modafinil in children

January 26, 2004

Here is a recent study (link to abstract below) looking at the use of modafinil, a wake-promoting drug, in children with excessive daytime sleepiness (in this study, primarily narcolepsy). The study was performed at the University of Louisville School of

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