Drs. Sikder and Kodadek (IMAGE)

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Drs. Sikder and Kodadek

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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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