Fighting Obesity With Cancer Drugs?
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Researchers from the University of Mississippi Medical Center have found that Sunitinib, a drug used to treat kidney and gastrointestinal tumors could be used to fight obesity.
The researchers found that the mice who received Sunitinib lost significant amounts of weight, with an average loss of 70 percent fat mass. However, their lean mass remained unaffected. Both mice who received the drug orally and those who received abdominal injections lost similar amounts of fat. In addition to fat loss, Sunitinib also seemed to curb the animals' appetites, with those receiving the drug eating less food once treatment was complete.
SOURCE: American Physiological Society Journal, April 2013