Sentences with phrase «treat human obesity»

Scientists think bears» adaptation to a high - fat diet might lead to better ways to treat human obesity.

Kajimura is hopeful but cautious about the prospects for using these drugs to treat human obesity in the near future.

Not exact matches

Regulatory issues must be addressed before moving to human studies, Davies said, but the findings published in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggest that it may be possible to manipulate the bacterial residents of the gut — the gut microbiota — to treat obesity and other chronic diseases.

It is exciting that there is now evidence that brown fat can be useful in treating obesity in adult humans,...

Even seemingly intractable problems such as the antibiotic crisis and the obesity epidemic could be resolved by treating human health and society as an integral part of an ecosystem.

«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels through beta3 - AR production in the BAT of animals and humans may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.

Their results could pave the way for urgently needed alternatives to bariatric surgery for treating obesity in humans — the rates of which have nearly tripled worldwide since 1975.

It is exciting that there is now evidence that brown fat can be useful in treating obesity in adult humans, and that it can be activated by cold exposure or a drug like mirabegron (18 April, p 32).

They describe gene therapy administered through skin transplants to treat two related and extremely common human ailments: type - 2 diabetes and obesity.

For example, 2013 saw studies showing that transplanting human fecal microbiota into mice could induce obesity and its associated metabolic phenotypes, and human data from a controlled study suggesting the procedure could treat recurrent C. difficileinfection.

Scientists grafted genetically edited human skin cells to treat type - 2 diabetes and prevent obesity in mice.

«With additional research on early - time restricted feeding on humans, we can create a more complete picture of whether this innovative method can best help prevent and treat obesity,» said Schoeller, who is a spokesperson for the Obesity Society and was not involved in theobesity,» said Schoeller, who is a spokesperson for the Obesity Society and was not involved in theObesity Society and was not involved in the study.

are similar to those that cause obesity in humans: too much food, too many treats and not enough exercise.

Treats and human food are sources of extra calories that frequently contribute to obesity.