Could blocking these immune cells aid weight loss?

The finding may help explain why some people remain slim despite having eating habits that cause others to gain weight. The mechanism works when intraepithelial T cells, which are a type of immune cell that resides in the lining of the small intestine, have an active gene for the protein integrin beta 7. In a study paper on their work that now appears in the journal Nature, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, MA, describe mice that d...

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