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Homo obesus: A Metabotrophin-Deficient Species. Pharmacology and Nutrition Insight

28 Jun 2007

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In most countries the prevalence of obesity now exceeds 15%, the figure used by the World Health Organization to define the critical threshold for intervention in nutritional epidemics. Here we describe Homo obesus (man the obese) as a recent phenotypic expression of Homo sapiens. Specifically, we classified Homo obesus as a species deficient of metabotrophic factors (metabotrophins), including endogenous...

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PMID: 17627549
DOI: 10.2174/138161207781039616

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