Obesity is a major public health problem, associated with "low-grade" systemic inflammation. Numerous studies have been devoted to understand the mechanisms behind obesity, and some of them have shown that deregulation in the brain may be responsible of it. In addition to peripheral inflammation, local hypothalamic inflammation has been found...
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August 16, 2023 (v1)Publication
Abstract: Since being described in Drosophila melanogaster in 2011, the Smurf phenotype, has been seen to be evolutionarily conserved in nematode and zebrafish, and has helped to identify the discontinuous nature of ageing and predict impending death from natural causes as well as from environmental stresses. This phenotype allowed us to model...
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