Preventing diet-induced obesity in mice by adipose tissue transformation and angiogenesis using targeted nanoparticles

The incidence of obesity, which is recognized by the American Medical Association as a disease, has nearly doubled since 1980, and obesity-related comorbidities have become a major threat to human health. Given that adipose tissue expansion and transformation require active growth of new blood vascu...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xue-Qing (Author), Farokhzad, Omid C. (Author), Xu, Xiaoyang (Contributor), Xue, Yuan (Contributor), Langer, Robert S (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2016-12-07T19:26:54Z.
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