Oxyntomodulin and peptide tyrosine-tyrosine (PYY) are released from intestinal enteroendocrine cells in response to a meal. These circulating hormones are considered to be satiety signals, as they ...

It sounds like a weight watcher’s dream come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant–the body’s way of ...

The beneficial effects of metformin treatment in women with type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are, in part, attributable to weight reduction, possibly caused by altered levels of ...

The gut hormone peptide YY 3-36 [PYY (3-36)] has been suggested to posses anorexigenic actions in animals and human adults. However, its circulating concentrations and function have not been studied ...

It may soon be possible to take a simple blood test and predict whether or not someone has low levels of a particular molecule, predisposing them to the development of Type 2 diabetes. If the test is ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that a hormone known as peptide YY (PYY), which is produced by gut endocrine cells and known to be involved in controlling appetite by ...

Peptide YY (PYY), a hormone produced by gut endocrine cells that was already known to control appetite, also plays an important role in maintaining the balance of fungi in the digestive system of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Research at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at Oregon Health & Science University has demonstrated that a hormone found naturally in the body has the ability to ...

When it was first discovered, scientists dubbed peptide YY3-36 (PYY) the fullness hormone. That’s because PYY–a protein produced by the gut–functions as a powerful appetite suppressant, at least in ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(11):612-620. Katie Wynne is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Internal Medicine in the ...