Discoveries of weight-loss proteins

Scientists from the Keio University and the Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Research Group in Japan recently found a protein that can prevent obesity through mouse experiments. This protein also exists in the human body and is expected to be used in the development of new slimming drugs. This result was published in the online edition of the British journal Nature Medicine on March 21.

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, Yuichi Oike and others from the School of Medicine of Keio University and researchers from the Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Molecular Medicine Institute discovered in 2003 a protein secreted by the liver that has blood vessel and skin regeneration