The pathogenesis of obesity: Stress and the brain-gut axis

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-34

  Kral, John G ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive behavior; Gut peptides; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Incretin; Metabolic syndrome; Pro opio melanocortin; Set point; Vagotomy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; INCRETIN; MELANOCORTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALNUTRITION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STRESS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BRAIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOMATOTYPES; STRESS;

EID: 33644537876     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2004.12.009     Document Type: Review

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