Role of the gut microbiota in host appetite control: Bacterial growth to animal feeding behaviour

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 11-25

  Fetissov, Sergueï O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

APPETITE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLITE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SATIETY; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; APPETITE REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS;

EID: 84987607161     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.150     Document Type: Review

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