Treatment of diabetes and atherosclerosis by inhibiting fatty-acid-binding protein aP2.

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Published in Nature on June 06, 2007

Authors

Masato Furuhashi1, Gürol Tuncman, Cem Z Görgün, Liza Makowski, Genichi Atsumi, Eric Vaillancourt, Keita Kono, Vladimir R Babaev, Sergio Fazio, MacRae F Linton, Richard Sulsky, Jeffrey A Robl, Rex A Parker, Gökhan S Hotamisligil

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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