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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2019
Medi&gene Inc., Seoul, KR;
Medi&Gene Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating obesity or sarcopenia, containing ATPase inhibitory factor 1 (IF1) and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition and a food for preventing or treating obesity or sarcopenia, containing, as an active ingredient, IF1 having an effect of suppressed appetite or effects increased muscle mass and muscle production. According to the present invention, ATPase inhibitory factor 1 (IF1) exhibits, in an obesity-induced mouse model, effects of inhibited weight gain and decreased dietary intake without side effects, and exhibits, in obesity-induced or aged mouse, effects of increased muscle mass, increased muscle protein and muscle production, and thus is very useful as an agent for preventing, alleviating or treating metabolic diseases such as obesity, an agent for suppressing appetite and an agent for preventing, alleviating or treating muscle loss-related diseases such as sarcopenia.