To combat the obesity: to avoid that the stomach expands

British scientists of the University of London have discovered a possible form of combatting the obesity: to avoid that the stomach expands.

As you publish the magazine Journal of Pharmacology Experimental and Therapeutics, the scientists reached this conclusion when identifying two cellular proteins that "relax" the digestive tract and they help you to adapt a big meal. This you could avoid with a drug that is able to lock this relaxation, and avoids this way the hyperalimentation.

To day of today, the actual only therapeutical tool with which we count for the obese morbid patient you are the surgery, for that reason this discovery could facilitate the things a lot, offering a new focus to combat this illness.

The two proteins that identified, P2Y1 and P2Y11, control so much the dilatory relaxations as quick of the digestive tract. The human stomach has "in rest" an interior volume of 0,75 lítros, but when you relax your muscular wall it can expand to an interior volume of two liters or more.

This expansion is controlled by ledges inside the stomach wall that you/they release molecules that you/they boost the proteins P2Y1 and P2Y11. If we achieve drugs able to lock the receiver of P2Y11 we would avoid the dilatory relaxation of the stomach, offering a person the possibility to regulate your alimentary usage.