Receptors identified for a weight regulator

Mart Saarma () and Adrian Goldman ()
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Mart Saarma: the Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki
Adrian Goldman: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds

Nature, 2017, vol. 550, issue 7675, 195-197

Abstract: 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. See Letter p.255

Date: 2017
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