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Appetite regulation & Hormones / Hormone System
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Appetite-regulating hormones influence the Central Nervous System (CNS) and maintain energy balance. Individuals often resist both native and administered appetite-regulating hormones due to transport saturation () and low permeability (; ; ) at the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)
see also:
Acetate & Adiposity / Obesity
[Adipocytokine / Adipokine](brain://y555pTJ570y_5R…
References (Sources)
- Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery
- Leptin and the Blood-Brain Barrier: Curiosities and Controversies
- Low permeability of the blood-brain barrier to nanomolar concentrations of immunoreactive alpha-melanotropin
- Permeability at the blood-brain and blood-nerve barriers of the neurotrophic factors: NGF, CNTF, NT-3, BDNF
- Transport of human recombinant brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) through the rat blood-brain barrier in vivo using vector-mediated peptide drug delivery