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Heart hormone helps shape fat metabolism
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Exercise brings down body weight because it draws on fat reserves that muscle can burn as fuel. But the heart also plays a similar role.
Sheila Collins and colleagues at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute detail how hormones released by the heart stimulate fat cell metabolism.
These hormones turn on a molecular mechanism similar to what's activated when the body
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