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    Whey protein isolate inhibits hepatic FGF21 production, which precedes weight gain, hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia in mice fed a high-fat diet

    Insufficient expression of hepatic fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) and stromal cell-derived factor 2 like 1 (Sdf2l1) reportedly leads to insulin resistance and hepatosteatosis in obesity and type 2 diabete...

    Katsunori Nonogaki, Takao Kaji in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion

    Deuterostomes (animals with ‘secondary mouths’) are generally accepted to develop the mouth independently of the blastopore. However, it remains largely unknown whether mouths are homologous among all deuteros...

    Takao Kaji, James D. Reimer, Arseniy R. Morov, Shigeru Kuratani in Zoological Letters (2016)