News tagged with metabolic stress

New test for mysterious metabolic diseases developed at Stanford/Packard

Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a much-needed way to monitor and find treatments for a mysterious and devastating group of metabolic diseases that arise from mutations in cells' fuel-burning ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD

Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obesity: Reviving the promise of leptin

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery more than a decade ago of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone secreted by fat tissue, generated headlines and great hopes for an effective treatment for obesity. But hopes ...

Biology /

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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