leptin
The more ghrelin in your stomach, the more you want to eat.
Ghrelin is an appetite-stimulating hormone released mostly by the stomach.
Ghrelin's potential hasn't escaped the attention of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Examples of ghrelin

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In the present study, we investigated ghrelin and leptin responses to food ingestion in patients with bulimia nervosa.
These data indicate that circulating ghrelin changed significantly across sampling times and that the bulimic and control groups displayed differences over the samplings.
Circulating ghrelin levels are decreased in human obesity.
Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach.
Ghrelin strongly stimulates growth hormone release in humans.
Food fails to suppress ghrelin levels in obese humans.
These data suggest that ghrelin acts as a peripheral orexigenic peptide that is involved in the regulation of energy balance and feeding behaviour.
Increased fasting plasma ghrelin levels in patients with bulimia nervosa.
All these findings suggest that ghrelin is a starvation-related hormone functioning as an indicator of shortterm changes in the energy balance.
The novel hypothalamic peptide ghrelin stimulates food intake and growth hormone secretion.
They report a new finding, blunting of the normal marked ghrelin decrease in bulimic women compared with healthy controls.
A variation in the ghrelin gene increases weight and decreases insulin secretion in tall, obese children.
Moreover, we observed that, in untreated symptomatic bulimic women, the suppression of circulating ghrelin by food intake was significantly blunted.
Moreover, no significant correlation emerged between preprandial plasma ghrelin concentrations and its maximum percent decrease after the meal.
In healthy women, circulating ghrelin exhibited a drastic decrease after the food intake whereas, in bulimic patients, this response was significantly blunted.
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