GDF15 Provides an Endocrine Signal of Nutritional Stress in Mice and Humans

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 707-718.e8

  Patel, Satish ^a   Alvarez Guaita, Anna ^a   Melvin, Audrey ^a   Rimmington, Debra ^a   Dattilo, Alessia ^a   Miedzybrodzka, Emily L ^a   Cimino, Irene ^a   Maurin, Anne Catherine ^c   Roberts, Geoffrey P ^a   Meek, Claire L ^a   Virtue, Samuel ^a   Sparks, Lauren M ^f   Parsons, Stephanie A ^f   Redman, Leanne M ^g   Bray, George A ^g   Liou, Alice P ^d   Woods, Rachel M ^e   Parry, Sion A ^e   Jeppesen, Per B ^h   Kolnes, Anders J ⁱ   Harding, Heather P ^a,b   Ron, David ^a,b   Vidal Puig, Antonio ^a   Reimann, Frank ^a   Gribble, Fiona M ^a   Hulston, Carl J ^e   Farooqi, I Sadaf ^a   Fafournoux, Pierre ^c   Smith, Steven R ^f   Jensen, Jorgen ^j   Breen, Danna ^d   Wu, Zhidan ^d   Zhang, Bei B ^d   Coll, Anthony P ^a   Savage, David B ^a   O'Rahilly, Stephen ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INRA and University of Auvergne   (France)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

ⁱ OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^j NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

conditioned taste aversion; GDF15; GFRAL; integrated stress response; overnutrion

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; GLUCOSE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 85060682901     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.12.016     Document Type: Article

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