The invention concerns the treatment of obesity, in particular abdominal visceral obesity. More specifically, the invention concerns the use of selective 15-lipoxygenase (LO) inhibitors for preparing medicines useful in the treatment of obesity, or at least abdominal visceral obesity, and its
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to constructs, compositions and methods for modulating expression of platelet-type 12 lipoxygenase (12-LO) in adipose cells, useful for amelioration of obesity and conditions associated therewith.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Obesity has become
INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL ELECTRONICALLY FILED
Incorporated by reference in its entirety herein is a computer-readable nucleotide/amino acid sequence listing submitted concurrently herewith and identified as follows: One 16.9 kilobyte ASCII (text) file named "SMC 002 US-1 seq_ST25"
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