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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Ian M. Willis, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Nouria Hernandez, St Sulpice, CH;
Wassim Hodroj, Bures sur Yvette, FR;
Ian M. Willis, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Nouria Hernandez, St Sulpice, CH;
Wassim Hodroj, Bures sur Yvette, FR;
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY (US);
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for determining a putative agent that treats or prevent obesity and/or obesity related diseases comprising contacting cells with the putative agent and measuring the activity and/or level of Maf1 and/or the activity and/or level of KIAA1875. The present invention also provides the agent identified by the methods herein and methods of treating or preventing obesity and/or obesity related diseases in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that inhibits or downregulates Maf1 and/or activates or upregulates KIAA1875.