For comparison, the richest ice cream clocks in at only 16% fat. And after just three to five days guzzling the stuff, seal pups double their body weight. But seals aren't the only animals with ...

Leptin-sensitive animals showed no such dysregulation. "With this as a starting point, we found that mTOR is hyperactive in ...

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer, and a greater probability for the cancer to spread ...

Even before infection, lung tissues from obese animals showed increased expression of genes related to cell death and inflammation. During infection, obese ferrets upregulated some inflammatory ...

"Our experiments involved Goto-Kakizaki [GK] rats, an animal model for non-obese type 2 diabetes. We found that insulin ...

However, it has not been shown to be elevated in dietary obese animal models. In a study in mice, TNF-a-induced glycerol and fatty acid release was substantially reduced by a thiazolidinedione.