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• Drug treatments for obesity [r]: Treatments of obesity that are based on drugs. ^[e]
• Energy balance in pregnancy and lactation [r]: Adaptations in the control of food intake and energy expenditure in different reproductive states. ^[e]
• Evolution of appetite regulating systems [r]: Comparisons of the mechanisms regulating food intake and energy expenditure between species. ^[e]
• Exercise and body weight [r]: Correlation between physical activity and the body mass index. ^[e]
• Food reward [r]: The brain mechanisms involved in reinforcing feeding behaviour. ^[e]
• Genetics of obesity [r]: The evidence for a genetic component to obesity in humans. ^[e]
• Gut-brain signalling [r]: The interaction between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain. ^[e]
• Health consequences of obesity [r]: Long-term effects of obesity on health. ^[e]
• Glucostatic theory of appetite control [r]: The theory that changes in blood glucose concentrations or arteriovenous glucose differences are detected by glucoreceptors that affect energy intake. ^[e]
• Melanocortins and appetite [r]: The regulation of food intake through neuropeptides related to adrenocorticotropic hormone. ^[e]
• Stress and appetite [r]: The interactions between the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the regulation of food intake. ^[e]
• Adipocyte [r]: Cell that stores fat and makes it available for use as energy. ^[e]
• Leptin [r]: Hormone secreted by adipocytes that regulates appetite. ^[e]
• Ghrelin [r]: A hormone produced by P/D1 cells lining the fundus of the human stomach that stimulate appetite. ^[e]
• Hypothalamus [r]: A part of the mammalian brain located below the thalamus, forming the major portion of the ventral region of the diencephalon. ^[e]
• Arcuate nucleus [r]: An aggregation of neurons in the mediobasal hypothalamus with important roles in appetite regulation and in the control of growth hormone secretion and prolactin secretion. ^[e]
• Hunger [r]: Localized subjective sensation, caused by emptiness and a resulting hypermotility of the stomach. ^[e]
• Satiety [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cholecystokinin [r]: Peptide hormone synthesised by L-cells in the mucosal epithelium of the duodenum, and secreted in response to the presence of partially digested lipids and proteins. ^[e]