Autogenous hormone lead to fatty liver

September 7, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

In the healthy body fats are special tissue as an energy reserve. Under certain circumstances, but this mechanism gets mixed up and the fat is deposited in the liver. There is the infamous fat liver, to many metabolic diseases and the risk for heart attack and stroke increases. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have now deciphered how the body’s hormone cortisol to fat storage in the liver can contribute. The new findings could in the future better methods to prevent develop.

In mice, the researchers switched the cortisol in the liver. Subsequently formed large quantities of a certain protein, the storage of fat in the liver do. The fat in the liver, then dropped significantly. Against normal mice given extra cortisol, decreased the content of useful protein in the liver and fat levels rose.

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