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Appetite and body weight : integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs /

There is now enough basic work to sketch out the principal systems at all levels of the brain, from prefrontal cortex to lower brainstem, which are orchestrated to provide control of food selection, preference and consumption. At the same time, the complex interplay between central systems and signa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kirkham, Tim C., Cooper, S. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Cortical systems involved in appetite and food consumption
  • Nucleus accumbens shell as a model of integrative subcortical forebrain systems regulating food intake
  • Hypothalamic neuropeptides and feeding regulation
  • Brainstem-hypothalamic neuropeptides and the regulation of feeding
  • Gut-brain axis in the control of eating
  • Integration of peripheral adiposity signals and psychological controls of appetite
  • Brain reward systems for food incentives and hedonics in normal appetite and eating disorders
  • Pharmacology of food, taste and learned flavor preferences
  • Role of palatability in control of human appetite: implications for understanding and treating obesity
  • Learned influences on appetite, food choice, and intake: evidence in human beings
  • Gene environment interactions and the origin of the modern obesity epidemic: a novel nonadaptive drift scenario
  • Preclinical developments in antiobesity drugs
  • Clinical investigations of antiobesity drugs.