#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin
The Peter Attia Drive
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Do You Have a Parabiosis With a Zucker Rat?
There have been parabiosis experiments done th rats, but they've generally done these in a slightly different way from the way you ask the question. The zucker rat studies supported the idea that the same as the mice will pass forward. When we were trying to on these jeans, i actually took blood out of zucker rats and injected it into db mice to see whether or not i could slow down their food and takecaus at one time,. We were worried that we might not be able to get the jean by mapping, and would have to try to isolate the product out of the blood of an animal. That's that's like the level of resolution you can get out of
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