A Gut Feeling for Obesity: 7TM Sensors on Enteroendocrine Cells

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• 作者：Maja S. Engelstoft ; Kristoffer L. Egerod ; Birgitte Holst ; Thue W. Schwartz
• 刊名：Cell Metabolism
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：6 December 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：8
• 期：6
• 页码：447-449
• 全文大小：347 K

文摘

Enteroendocrine cells, which secrete peptide hormones in response to sensation of food and gut microbiota products, can now be genetically tagged, isolated, cultured, and characterized for expression of the elusive chemosensors, as shown in publications in PNAS (Samuel et al., 2008) and in this issue (Reimann et al., 2008).