Obesity : pathology and therapy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2000]
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| Series: | Handbook of experimental pharmacology.
v. 149. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sect. 1. Pathology
- Obesity: definition and epidemiology / M. DiGirolamo, J. Harp, J. Stevens
- Health implications of obesity / F.X. Pi-Sunyer
- The molecular and epidemiological genetics of obesity / Y.C. Chagnon, L. Pérusse, C. Bouchard
- The influence of obesity on the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus / J.W. Kolaczynski, B.J. Goldstein
- Fat metabolism in obesity, with special emphasis on the insulin resistance and elevated lipid mobilisation in visceral obesity / P. Björntorp
- The regulation of body weight: set-points and obesity / M.D. Hirvonen, R.E. Keesey
- Sect. 2. Pharmacological and other treatments
- Serotonin drugs and the treatment of obesity / J.C.G. Halford, J.E. Blundell
- Pharmacological treatment of obesity: outcomes and new tools / L.A. Campfield, F.J. Smith
- Popular diets and other treatments of obesity / R. Konikoff, J. Dwyer
- Diet and body weight reduction / V. Drapeau, A. Tremblay
- The surgical treatment of morbid obesity / D.M. Smith, W.J. Pories, K.G. MacDonald Jr.
- Sect. 3. Pharmacological targets
- Leptin: the adipocyte signal in the control of body weight / J.F. Caro, M.E. Trautmann
- Central nervous system neuropeptides involved in obesity / M. Rossi, S.R. Bloom
- β3 adrenergic receptors as a therapeutic target for obesity / J.G. Granneman
- Insulin sensitization / C.F. Burant
- Sect. 4. Strategies for identifying future targets
- New obesity targets: molecular-genetic and transgenic approaches / D.E. Moller, L.H.T. Van der Ploeg
- Identification of genes involved in animal models of obesity / D.B. West ... [et al.]
- Primates in the experimental pharmacology of obesity / B.C. Hansen.