BRP (IMAGE)

Stanford Medicine

BRP

Caption

The 12-amino-acid BRP peptide (spheres are atoms and sticks are bonds) suppresses appetite and reduces weight gain in mice and pigs without causing nausea or food aversion.
 

Credit

Katrin Svensson/Stanford Medicine

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License

Public Domain

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