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Appetite-Regulating Hormone

Known as: Gastric MLTRP, Motilin-Related Peptide, Obestatin 
Appetite-regulating hormone (117 aa, ~13 kDa) is encoded by the human GHRL gene. This protein is involved in satiety, thirst and anxiety and… 
National Institutes of Health

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GHRL geneIntercellular Communication ProcessObestatin

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ghrelin

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Review
2010
Review
2010
GOAT: the master switch for the ghrelin system?
The ghrelin-ghrelin receptor system is one of the most important mechanisms regulating energy balance and metabolism. Among other… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Circulating preprandial ghrelin to obestatin ratio is increased in human obesity.
CONTEXT Obestatin, a sibling of ghrelin derived from preproghrelin, opposes ghrelin's effects on food intake. Plasma obestatin… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Plasma obestatin is lower at fasting and not suppressed by insulin in insulin-resistant humans.
Obestatin, a recently discovered 23-amino acid peptide, is involved in the regulation of appetite and body weight in antagonistic… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Lack of interaction between peripheral injection of CCK and obestatin in the regulation of gastric satiety signaling in rodents
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Loss of Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor 1a and Overexpression of Type 1b Receptor Transcripts in Human Adrenocortical Tumors
Objective and Methods: Quantitative analysis of mRNA expression of ghrelin and its receptors GHS-R1a and -R1b in a large series… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Evidence That Growth Hormone Exerts a Feedback Effect on Stomach Ghrelin Production and Secretion
Ghrelin is a recently discovered stomach hormone that stimulates pituitary growth hormone (GH) secretion potently. The purpose of… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Stimulatory Effect of Ghrelin on Isolated Porcine Somatotropes
Research on the mechanism for growth hormone secretagogue (GHS) induction of growth hormone secretion led to the discovery of the… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Rat Ghrelin Stimulates Growth Hormone and Prolactin Release in the Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus
Abstract Recently, ghrelin (Ghr), a new peptide which specifically stimulates growth hormone (GH) release from the pituitary, was… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Structure and regulation of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor.
Synthetic growth hormone secretagogues (GHS) stimulate growth hormone release through binding to a recently cloned specific… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Circulating Ghrelin Levels Are Decreased in Human
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