Obesity vaccine works in rats, researchers report Rodents did not eat...

Dayton Daily News;  August 1, 2006 ;     541 words ......vaccine against the hormone, known as ghrelin, did not eat less than unvaccinated control...scientists was tempered by evidence that ghrelin has many other functions, possibly including...useful in combating Alzheimer's disease. "Ghrelin's really controversial," Kim Janda, a...

Ghrelin: Pharmaceutical & Therapeutic Opportunities for the Treatment of...

M2 Presswire;  August 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-8 August 2003-Research and Markets: Ghrelin: Pharmaceutical & Therapeutic Opportunities...Markets have announced the addition of the Ghrelin: Pharmaceutical & Therapeutic Opportunities...therapeutic and pharmaceutical potential of ghrelin. At that time this mediator represented...

Ghrelin: A potential drug target for obesity

Indian Journal of Pharmacology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The suffix "ghre" means "to grow". Ghrelin (pronounced GRELL-in) was discovered in...pituitary. It was subsequently determined that ghrelin, along with several other hormones, has...energy balance. Synthesis and receptor Ghrelin is synthesized as a pre-prohormone, and...

The hunger hormone unharnessed

The Scientist;  October 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Ghrelin as a source of drugs for combating eating disorders...all from Japanese teams, bolster the idea that ghrelin, a peptide originally implicated in the release...group at Eli Lilly and Co. shows that, in humans, ghrelin's involvement in the process is less straightforward...findings have important ...

City scientists take on world; Key finding in cardiac research; WHAT IS...

The Press;  June 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......to pin down the exact function of the hormone ghrelin. The team has discovered that ghrelin, the most potent human appetite stimulant, also...attack, the stomach almost totally eliminates ghrelin from the system -- giving the body its best...

Identification of Ghrelin in Human Saliva: Production by the Salivary...

Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Background: We investigated whether ghrelin is present in human saliva, is produced...these findings. Methods: Expression of ghrelin and specific receptor mRNA was determined...quantification of salivary total and bioactive ghrelin. Distribution of ghrelin was investigated...

The Physiology and Potential Clinical Applications of Ghrelin, a Novel...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Ghrelin, a peptide hormone originally identified as the endogenous...stomach and secondarily from the small intestine and colon. Ghrelin may also be expressed in the pancreatic islets, hypothalamus...widely expressed, suggesting diverse physiologic roles for ghrelin. A growing body of evidence suggests ...

Still hungry? Fattening revelations--and new mysteries--about the hunger...

Science News;  April 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Cycles of this powerful hormone--dubbed ghrelin, after a Hindu word for growth --reflect...factors that modify the body's production of ghrelin and other eating-related signals. Such...curiosities. As the complex picture of ghrelin and its allies has been getting clearer...

Dieters are hungrier. (Healthbites).(because of Ghrelin)(Brief Article)

Food Processing;  November 1, 2002 ;     149 words ......Scientists at Eli Lilly & Co. found ghrelin is the culprit responsible for that phenomenon...years ago, reports the Chicago Tribune. Ghrelin is a hormone produced in the stomach and...stimulants ever discovered. New research on ghrelin by a team at the University of Washington...

Study: New evidence explaining memory loss

University Wire;  February 22, 2006 ;     387 words ......Record) (U-WIRE) CINCINNATI -- A hormone, Ghrelin, known for the regulation of food intake...the Genome Research Institute found that Ghrelin is linked to increased hunger, appetite...behavior of animals with normal levels of Ghrelin to subjects without the Ghrelin-producing...

A hungry hormone.(hormone called ghrelin stimulates appetite)(Brief...

U.S. News & World Report;  June 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......hormones--specifically, the oddly named ghrelin, one of the strongest appetite stimulants...And last week researchers suggested that ghrelin, produced in the gut, may be the reason...and the reason why so many dieters fail. Ghrelin may link the stomach to the brain chemically...

Human ghrelin modifies lipid metabolism of the common frog Rana temporaria

Folia Zoologica;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract. The functions of ghrelin, a novel weight-regulatory peptide...the effects of exogenous, mammalian ghrelin on the carbohydrate and lipid metabolism...daily with purified human Ser3-acylated ghrelin at 10 g kg^sup -1^ d^sup -1^ or with...

Ghrelin: Its Role in Energy Balance1

The Journal of Nutrition;  May 1, 2005 ;     616 words ...Ghrelin was initially described as the endogenous ligand for growth...The unexpected observation that stomach was the source of ghrelin led Tschop et al. (3) to investigate its effects on energy balance. They demonstrated that exogenous ghrelin stimulates food intake and reduced fatty acid oxidation...

Vaccine provides an immunity to fat?

International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM;  September 1, 2006 ;     254 words ......August 4. The new vaccine is directed against ghrelin, a gastric endocrine hormone produced primarily...Identified in 1999, much is still unknown about ghrelin. Scientists do know that ghrelin does control weight gain and fat storage through...

Hormone linked to brain's cravings for food and other energy sources.

M2 Presswire;  October 23, 2006 ;     409 words ......LTD RDATE:20102006 New Haven, Conn. - Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, induces...The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Ghrelin was previously associated with growth...study, Horvath and colleagues found that ghrelin could signal directly in the VTA region...