- ►diabetesjournals.org DJ Clegg, LM Brown, SC Woods, SC Benoit - Diabetes, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc Males have proportionally more visceral fat and are more likely to develop
complications associated with obesity than females, and the male brain is
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- ►nih.gov L Plum, BF Belgardt, JC Brüning - Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2006 - Am Soc Clin Investig Insulin has pleiotropic biological effects in virtually all tissues. However,
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B Mittendorfer - Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 2005 - journals.lww.com Purpose of review This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of
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SC Woods, TA Lutz, N Geary, W Langhans - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: …, 2006 - rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org The control of food intake and body weight by the brain relies upon the
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AJ Kastin, W Pan - Endocrinology, 2006 - Endocrine Soc Although the discovery of leptin (1) has failed, so far, to fulfill its promise
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M Hallschmid, C Benedict, J Born, HL Fehm, … - Physiology & behavior, 2004 - Elsevier Maintaining a stable body weight set-point is assumed to rely on a homeostatic
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FJ Gómez-Pérez, JA Rull - Archives of medical research, 2005 - Elsevier In normal humans, blood glucose and insulin are maintained within a narrow range
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