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日本三重大学日前发表公报称,发现一种称为“MXD3”的基因与肥胖有关。研究小组认为,如果开发出遏制这种基因作用的药物,就有望缓解代谢综合征。研究小组利用小型热带鱼--斑马鱼进行了实验。研究人员给斑马鱼喂食过量的食物,约8周后取出内脏脂肪组织进行研究,结果发现有91个基因的功能变得活跃起来,其中有9个基因,包括“MXD3”基因迄今尚未被报告过与肥胖有关。研究小组通过基因技术,分别培育出能遏制这9个基因的9种斑马鱼,然后与未进行基因改造的斑马鱼进行比较。结果发现,同样投放过量
Japan’s Mie University recently issued a communiqué that found a gene called “MXD3 ” related to obesity. The team believes that if the development of drugs to contain the role of this gene, is expected to ease the metabolic syndrome. The team experimented with small tropical fish, zebrafish. Researchers fed zebrafish with excess food and removed visceral adipose tissue about 8 weeks later. As a result, 91 genes became active. Nine of these genes, including the “MXD3” gene, have not yet been Reported about obesity. The team used genetic techniques to develop nine species of zebrafish, which contain the nine genes, respectively, and compared them to those that had not been genetically engineered. The results found that the same overdose