Drug Targets Fat Tissue, Spurs Weight Loss in Monkeys (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Drug Targets Fat Tissue, Spurs Weight Loss in Monkeys (3 of 4)

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Sagittal MRI image of an obese rhesus monkey before being treated with adipotide. Abdominal fat is shown in red. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 9, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. K.F. Barnhart of University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and colleagues, was titled, "A Peptidomimetic Targeting White Fat Causes Weight Loss and Improved Insulin Resistance in Obese Monkeys."

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