Saltiel Lab
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Discoveries
When good cells go bad by the fat company they keep
A new study by LSI Director Alan Saltiel and collaborators links obesity, inflammation and diabetes to macrophages, and is featured on the cover of the Journal of Clinical Investigation...
LSI researchers isolate gene causing expanding waistline
May 5, 2006 - LSI research professors Alan Saltiel and Steve Weiss and their colleagues have found a gene that may cause obesity. The product of this gene acts as a metabolic pair of scissors, cutting through the collagen tissue network, subsequently freeing adipocyte cells to expand in the belly.
