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Appetite Stimulants

Known as: Stimulants, Appetite, Drugs, Appetite-Stimulating, appetite drug stimulating 
Agents that are used to stimulate appetite. These drugs are frequently used to treat anorexia associated with cancer and AIDS.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2013
Review
2013
HIV-associated wasting.
2006
2006
Self‐Reported Eating Behaviors of Extremely Obese Persons Seeking Bariatric Surgery: A Factor Analytic Approach
Objective: To summarize the self‐reported eating behaviors of persons seeking bariatric surgery and to provide reliability data… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Epidemiology of weight loss in humans with special reference to wasting in the elderly.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Loss of skeletal muscle in cancer: biochemical mechanisms.
Patients with cancer often undergo a specific loss of skeletal muscle mass, while the visceral protein reserves are preserved… 
1997
1997
Effect of the appetite stimulant cyproheptadine on deoxynivalenol-induced reductions in feed consumption and weight gain in the mouse.
Deoxynivalenol (DON, vomitoxin), a Fusarium mycotoxin, is suspected of inducing its anorectic/feed refusal activity through a… 
1996
1996
Megestrol acetate therapy for anorexia and weight loss in children with malignant solid tumours
Background: Malnutrition is very frequent in childhood cancer. Its main cause is inadequate intake for energy demands owing to… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Intense exercise and food restriction cause similar hypothalamic neuropeptide Y increases in rats.
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent central appetite stimulant whose concentrations rise markedly in hypothalamic appetite… 
1993
1993
Increased neuropeptide Y concentrations in specific hypothalamic nuclei of the rat following treatment with methysergide: Evidence that NPY may mediate serotonin's effects on food intake
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Acute fenfluramine administration reduces neuropeptide Y concentrations in specific hypothalamic regions of the rat: Possible implications for the anorectic effect of fenfluramine
1978
1978
Potential therapeutic applications of naturally occurring and synthetic cannabinoids.
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