Acute effect of smoking on plasma Obestatin levels

BACKGROUND: Smoking and smoking cessation are considered to be associated with weight changes. We have recently shown that smoking acutely increases plasma levels of ghrelin, a known orexigenic hormone. Obestatin is a peptide encoded by the ghrelin gene, which opposes ghrelin effects on food intake....

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Autores principales: Kukuvitis, Asterios, Froudarakis, Marios, Tryfon, Stavros, Tzouvelekis, Argyris, Saroglou, Maria, Karkavitsas, Nikolaos, Bouros, Demosthenes
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-8-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-8-2

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