date:Jul 10, 2012
e glucose, suppressing the desire to eat.
Mithieux noted that mice that were genetically engineered to lack MORs did not carry out this release of glucose, nor did they show signs of 'feeling full', after eating high-protein foods. He noted that because MORs are also present in the neurons lining the walls of the portal vein in humans, the mechanisms uncovered by the team may also take place in people.
The team says that the challenge is now to determine how to act on the mu-opioid receptors t