The intestinal immune system controls the body weight

(Université catholique de Louvain) A group of Louvain Drug Research Institute researchers identified an unsuspected mechanism impacting the development of obesity and diabetes type 2 after following a diet with a high dose of fat nutrition. The team of Professor Patrice D. Cani -- in direct collaboration with two French teams, a Swedish expert as well as other Universite catholique de Louvain researchers -- made an important discovery related to the essential role of the intestinal immune syste...