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 ...

PLYMOUTH – Reaching 100 career goals as a junior is a milestone mark for a lacrosse player. Plymouth North junior Addie Pyy recently became one of the newest members on an elite list. Pyy had 95 ...

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 ...

Discover how protein, fiber, carbohydrates, and fats biologically shape hunger and fullness through measurable changes in gut hormones and central appetite circuits.

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at Imperial have found that a higher-fiber diet stimulates the release of a key appetite-reducing hormone, in the ileum, part of the ...

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 ...

PLYMOUTH – So on one side there’s Macey Shriner. An elite track athlete who is a multiple time Patriot League All-Star and about to embark on the next phase of her life as a Division 1 athlete at Penn ...

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 ...