Nikhil Dhurandhar

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Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar is a university professor who has published details about the adipogenic effect of the human adenovirus AD-36 or 'Adv36' on laboratory animals ^{[citation needed]}, and also its association with human obesity.^[1] He trained as a homeopath in India, studied Nutrition at North Dakota State University and has a PhD from Bombay. http://www.pbrc.edu/docvwr/cvviewer/default.aspx?pbrcid=2449 He has coined the term infectobesity.^[2]

Dhurandhar works at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

References

↑ Atkinson RL, Dhurandhar NV, Allison DB, Bowen RL, Israel BA, Albu JB, Augustus AS (March 2005). "Human adenovirus-36 is associated with increased body weight and paradoxical reduction of serum lipids". Int J Obes (Lond) 29 (3): 281–6. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802830. PMID 15611785.
↑ Dhurandhar NV (October 2001). "Infectobesity: obesity of infectious origin". J. Nutr. 131 (10): 2794S–2797S. PMID 11584109.

External links

Official site of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

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