Leptin reduces food intake in part by enhancing satiety responses to gastrointestinal signals produced in response to food consumption. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), secreted by the intestine ...

Many of the neuropeptide receptors expressed centrally are also expressed peripherally and thus actions of agonists or antagonists of these receptors cannot be assumed to induce weight loss by ...

Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States ...