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, Farokhzad, Omid C., Xu, Xiaoyang, Xue, Yuan, Langer, Robert S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105741
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1634-3329
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492

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