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This project investigates the role of gastrointestinal hormones in obesity development, aiming to identify key hormones and develop anti-obesity drugs. It focuses on understanding hormonal signals that influence food intake and weight management.
Obesity is the fasted growing health problem in the Western World.
In the United States, obesity as cause of preventable mortality (365,000 deaths in the year 2000) will soon overtake tobacco (435,000 deaths) and already has overtaken alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths), infectious diseases (75,000) and motor vehicle crashes (43,000).
More important, it is also a problem in children and adolescent, and accordingly, one of the major future health problems.
We hypothesize that the reduction of hor…
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
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Denmark, Kobenhavn
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
Denmark, HOERSHOLM
Type: Company (for-profit)
Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
United Kingdom, London
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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