Researchers find stronger immune response against herpes simplex virus 2 in obese mice

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Researchers find stronger immune response against herpes simplex virus 2 in obese mice

A team of researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, working with a colleague from Myunggok Medical Research Center, has found that test mice intentionally overfed to make them obese put up a stronger immune response against the herpes simplex virus 2 than did mice fed normally. In their paper published the journal Cell Reports, the group describes their work with testing immune response in lab mice and what they found.

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