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PYY3-36 Causes Taste Aversion at Appetite-Suppressing Doses — A Nausea Concern

Animal StudyModerate evidence
The takeaway

PYY3-36 at doses that suppress appetite also produced conditioned taste aversion in mice, suggesting its anorectic effect may partly involve nausea/malaise rather than pure physiological satiety — a caution for obesity drug development.

Key finding

Peripheral PYY3-36 at appetite-suppressing doses produced conditioned taste aversion (learned food avoidance suggesting nausea), indicating its anorec

What the researchers found

Peripheral PYY3-36 at appetite-suppressing doses produced conditioned taste aversion (learned food avoidance suggesting nausea), indicating its anorectic effect may partly involve malaise rather than pure satiety — an important consideration for PYY-based obesity drugs.

Why it matters

Relevant for neuropeptides, weight-loss, receptor-signaling.

How the study worked

animal-study study on neuropeptides, weight-loss.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

moderate evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2005.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research with clinical implications.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.
  • Clinical translation to evaluate.

Common questions

What was studied?
PYY3-36 Causes Taste Aversion at Appetite-Suppressing Doses — A Nausea Concern
What was found?
PYY3-36 at doses that suppress appetite also produced conditioned taste aversion in mice, suggesting its anorectic effect may partly involve nausea/malaise rather than pure physiological satiety — a caution for obesity drug development.

Read the original research

Peripheral administration of PYY(3-36) produces conditioned taste aversion in mice.

Cell metabolism, 1(3), 159-68

Citation

Halatchev, Ilia G; Cone, Roger D. (2005). Peripheral administration of PYY(3-36) produces conditioned taste aversion in mice.. Cell metabolism, 1(3), 159-68.