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A Gut Feeling for Obesity: 7TM Sensors on Enteroendocrine Cells

Authors :
Birgitte Holst
Kristoffer L. Egerod
Thue W. Schwartz
Maja S. Engelstoft
Source :
Cell Metabolism. 8(6):447-449
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2008.

Abstract

Enteroendocrine cells, which secrete peptide hormones in response to sensation of food and gut microbiota products, can now be genetically tagged, isolated, cultured, and characterized for expression of the elusive chemosensors, as shown in publications in PNAS (Samuel et al., 2008) and in this issue (Reimann et al., 2008).

Details

ISSN :
15504131
Volume :
8
Issue :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Cell Metabolism
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....7477578b5363b70f0b20f59e04f21e8d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2008.11.004