HORMONE LINKS SLEEP, HUNGER AND METABOLISM, RESEARCHERS FIND
November 14, 2007
November 14, 2007
DALLAS, Nov. 14 -- The University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release:
While investigating how the hormone orexin might control sleep and hunger, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered, to their surprise, that it activates a protein, HIF-1, long known to stimulate cancerous tumor growth.
The study, appearing today in the online version of the journal Genes and Development, is among the first to show how HI . . .
While investigating how the hormone orexin might control sleep and hunger, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered, to their surprise, that it activates a protein, HIF-1, long known to stimulate cancerous tumor growth.
The study, appearing today in the online version of the journal Genes and Development, is among the first to show how HI . . .