Obesity is not just a cosmetic problem: obesity for many years is often the cause of fat and metabolic disorders – as well as diabetes. A study of obese mice show that the interplay between hormones and proteins might be to blame.
The main cause for the development of metabolic disorders such as diabetes meilitus is a reduced response of cells to the hormone insulin. In particular, the cells in the muscles, liver and adipose tissue respond to the poor blood sugar-regulating hormone. A group of researchers from Austria has now examined more closely in this context, the interaction of insulin and fat cells.
