By People with advanced cancers often feel like their bodies are wasting away. That’s because of cachexia, a condition in which impaired metabolism leads to muscle wasting and drastic weight loss (SN: 4/15/15). A new study in mice hints at a way to reverse the condition.
Blocking the activity in the brain of an immune protein that helps regulate body weight led to the mice eating and drinking again, and even gaining muscle mass, researchers report June 1 in Nature Communications.
