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Nature Medicine  7, 1102 - 1103 (2001)
doi:10.1038/nm1001-1102

Turning WAT into BAT gets rid of fat

Hubert C. Chen & Robert V. Farese Jr

Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Research Institute University of California, San Francisco California, USA
hchen@gladstone.ucsf.edu or bfarese@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Several knockout mouse models of leanness and obesity resistance have been reported over the past several years and have advanced our understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of obesity. A new lean mouse model has been generated by inactivating the gene for an inhibitor of mRNA translation. (pages 1128−1131)

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