Adaptive reduction in basal metabolic rate in response to food deprivation in humans: A role for feedback signals from fat stores

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 599-606

  Dulloo, Abdul G ^a,b   Jacquet, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Energy balance; Malnutrition; Men; Obesity; Semistarvation; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY COMPOSITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; STARVATION; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 0031661846     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/68.3.599     Document Type: Article

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