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Published online 10 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021209-3
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Brain reaction may up anorexia
Immune attack could cripple appetite control.
Some eating disorders could involve the body's immune system rounding on the brain, Swedish researchers are proposing.
Three-quarters of the anorexic and bulimic women studied by Serguei Fetissov of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm carry blood antibodies targeted against appetite centres in the brain, he finds.
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