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Ghrelin's Short-Term and Long-Term Effects on Energy Balance: Meal Control vs Body Weight

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The takeaway

Ghrelin's energy homeostasis effects span short-term meal-to-meal appetite stimulation and long-term body weight/composition regulation, with different mechanisms and therapeutic implications for each timescale.

Key finding

Ghrelin's energy homeostasis effects span short-term meal-to-meal appetite stimulation and long-term body weight/composition regulation, with differen

What the researchers found

Ghrelin's energy homeostasis effects span short-term meal-to-meal appetite stimulation and long-term body weight/composition regulation, with different mechanisms and therapeutic implications for each timescale.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2010.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
Ghrelin's Short-Term and Long-Term Effects on Energy Balance: Meal Control vs Body Weight
What was found?
Ghrelin's energy homeostasis effects span short-term meal-to-meal appetite stimulation and long-term body weight/composition regulation, with different mechanisms and therapeutic implications for each timescale.

Read the original research

Focus on the short- and long-term effects of ghrelin on energy homeostasis.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), 26(6), 579-84

Citation

De Vriese, Carine; Perret, Jason; Delporte, Christine. (2010). Focus on the short- and long-term effects of ghrelin on energy homeostasis.. Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), 26(6), 579-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2009.09.013