Targeting Sodium-Potassium Pump in Fat Cells May Help Reduce Obesity (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Targeting Sodium-Potassium Pump in Fat Cells May Help Reduce Obesity (2 of 2)

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Almost all organ systems are adversely affected by increased adiposity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Sodhi at Marshall University in Huntington, W.V., and colleagues was titled, "pNaKtide inhibits Na/K-ATPase reactive oxygen species amplification and attenuates adipogenesis."

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