Sentences with phrase «activated on a high fat diet»

Although the immune system is activated on a high fat diet, the immune system is less active when you really need it, according to the study.

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After eight weeks on a high - fat diet, mice that had been engineered with genes to activate the Hedgehog signaling pathway didn't gain weight (left), but control animals whose Hedgehog pathways were not activated became obese (right)(Credit: Long Lab)

Over an eight - week period, a control group of mice fed a high - fat diet predictably became obese, but the mice whose Hedgehog pathway had been activated didn't gain any more weight than another control group fed on a normal diet.

To explore if Hedgehog signaling also has an effect on diet - induced obesity after birth, Long and his team genetically engineered mice so that the Hedgehog pathway in fat cells would activate when they ate a high - fat diet.