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Obesity: Receptors identified for a weight regulator

23:08 EDT 27 Sep 2017 | Nature Publishing

The discovery of the receptors for the protein GDF15 suggests that it regulates food uptake through the emergency pathway — a neuronal circuit that causes weight loss in response to cancer, tissue damage and stress.

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