Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases: News and Research on Skin Diseases, Metabolic

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Microprotein adipogenin found to regulate fat storage in cells

A microprotein called adipogenin appears to play a key role in helping fat cells store lipid droplets—a phenomenon that's pivotal for metabolic health, a study co-led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The ...

Discovery shakes 60 years of certainty about fat metabolism

Scientists have known hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) as the enzyme that releases energy stored in our fat. Yet patients born without this protein do not become obese: on the contrary, they lose their adipose tissue, developing ...