Peptides in energy balance and obesity
By: edited by Gema Frühbeck.
Contributors: Frühbeck, Gema.; Nutrition Society (Great Britain)
Series: Frontiers in nutritional science -- no. 4
Publisher: CABI Pub. in association with the Nutrition Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845934071
Subjects: Peptide hormones; Obesity -- Pathophysiology; Energy metabolism; Peptides -- metabolism; Appetite Regulation; Energy Metabolism -- physiology; Homeostasis; Obesity -- physiopathology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orexigenic peptides / M. Morris and M. Hansen; title: Anorexigenic peptides / S. Perboni ... [et al.]; title: "Newcomers and supporting actors" / J. Harrold and G. Williams; title: The gut as a second brain / C.S. Small, K. Wynne, and S.R. Bloom; title: Elements of the adipostat / H. Hauner; title: Natriuretic peptides and other lipolytic peptides involved in the control of lipid mobilization / M. Lafontan ... [et al.]; title: The adipo-hepato-insular axis in glucose homeostasis / J. Gómez-Ambrosi, V. Catalán, and G. Frühbeck; title: Adipokines in the immune-stress response / R. Madani, N.C. Ogston, and V. Mohamed-Ali; title: Peptides involved in vascular homeostasis / A. Rodríguez and G. Frühbeck; title: Hierarchy of neural pathways controlling energy homeostasis / A. Abizaid and T.L. Horvath; title: Energy regulatory signals and food reward / D.P. Figlewicz, N.M. Sanders, and A.J. Sipols; title: Embracing complexity : the emergence of functional neuroimaging and other methodologies to study the role of the human brain in the pathophysiology of obesity / P.A. Tataranni ... [et al.]; title: Overview of the integrative physiology of adipose tissue in energy homeostasis / I. Dugail and M. Guerre-Millo; title: Application of "OMICS" : strategies to obesity research / S. Taleb ... [et al.]; title: Implications for the future of obesity management / G. Chaldakov ... [et al.].