Furthermore, bariatric surgery was used to determine the effect of weight loss on the intestinal gene expression levels of Il1b. To evaluate the effect of IL-1β and obesity in CC, we treated the adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29 with IL-1β and the adipocyte-conditioned medium (ACM) from patients with obesity. The gene discussed is IL1B; the disease is obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.