Scientists discover gene that helps to satiety when worms cylindrical and has a similar in humans raises the movement after eating.
Worms are the solution
Canberra - reaching Australian and Danish scientists to a gene in worms help to lose weight and combat obesity prevalent in the world and bring a lot of diseases.
The researchers said in their study that they spread them in the Annals of the American Academy of Sciences that the gene give a sense of satiety when worms and humans have similar.
This gene "ETS -5" is called a control signals sent by the brain to the intestines and cause a sense of satiety and stimulates the need to sleep, or to move after a meal.
Roger Pocock professor at Australia's Monash University, said that this discovery will pave the way for the development of molecule may help excess weight control by reducing appetite and stimulate the need to exercise more fitness exercises.
The researcher explained that when the intestine is stored enough fat, the brain receives a message referring to the worm to stop the move, what interests drowsiness, or vice versa asked to continue to move if saturation.
And enjoy Dodh C. elegans, known scientifically as "Kaeanorhabdetys Algans" cylindrical small and transparent, which is not beyond the length of one millimeter attention of researchers to the simplicity of the cerebral structure that includes only 302 neurological and 8 thousand cell entanglement between these cells point, compared with a hundred thousand billion neurons in humans and more 160 thousand link.
It is also interesting that this humble worm's share at about 80% of genes with humans and half of the known relate to human disease genes.
Pocock said, "As the worms share a large number of genes with humans, they are a very good models for research centered on biological processes, such as those of metabolic-related diseases."
Pocock pointed out that this is the first discovery of a gene that controls the metabolism, which opens up new ways to medicines and treatments related to the relationship between the gut and the brain and the sense of satiety.