Appetite and body weight integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs

There is now enough basic work to sketch out the principal systems at all levels of the brain, from prefrontal cortex to lower brainstem, which are orchestrated to provide control of food selection, preference and consumption. At the same time, the complex interplay between central systems and signa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirkham, Tim C.
Other Authors: Cooper, S. J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Academic Press 2007, ©2007
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Implications for Understanding and Treating Obesity.
  • Learned Influences on Appetite, Food Choice and Intake.
  • Gene Environment Interactions and the Origin of the Modern Obesity Epidemic.
  • Pre-Clinical Developments in Anti-Obesity Drugs.
  • Clinical Investigations of Anti-Obesity Drugs
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • implications for understanding and treating obesity
  • Learned influences on appetite, food choice, and intake: evidence in human beings
  • Gene environment interactions and the origin of the modern obesity epidemic: a novel nonadaptive drift scenario
  • Preclinical developments in antiobesity drugs
  • Clinical investigations of antiobe