A Spotlight on Appetite

Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al., 2017; Romere et al., 2016). Remarkably few hormones have been identified...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2018-02, Vol.97 (4), p.739-741
Hauptverfasser:	Beutler, Lisa R., Knight, Zachary A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agouti-Related Protein - physiology Animals Appetite Appetite Regulation Body weight Eating Fibrillin-1 Food intake Ghrelin - physiology Hormones Humans Insulin resistance Mice, Transgenic Microfilament Proteins - physiology Mutation Neurons - physiology Peptide Fragments - physiology Peptide Hormones - physiology Rodents
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Zusammenfassung:	Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al., 2017; Romere et al., 2016). Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al.; Romere et al.).
ISSN:	0896-6273 1097-4199
DOI:	10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.050