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Caption: Drs. Devanjan Sikder (left) instructor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Thomas Kodadek, chief of translational research at UT Southwestern, have found that orexin, a hormone associated with sleep and hunger, activates a protein long known to stimulate tumor growth.
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