ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

11 Obesity and Weight Regulation

Hungry fat cells

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11.12 Asprosin is a centrally acting orexigenic hormone

C Duerrschmid , Y He , C Wang , C Li , JC Bournat , C Romere , PK Saha , ME Lee , KJ Phillips , M Jain , P Jia , Z Zhao , M Farias , Q Wu , DM Milewicz , VR Sutton , DD Moore , NF Butte , MJ Krashes , Y Xu , AR Chopra

To read the full abstract: Nat Med. 2017 Dec; 23(12): 1444–1453This study highlights the importance of asprosin in the regulation of appetite. This peptide hormone was first described by Romere et al. in 2016 (1), who reported 2 patients with neonatal progeroid syndrome (NPS) due to truncating heterozygous mutations in the fibrillin-gene (FBN1). The FBN1 gene encodes profibrillin wh...
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