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Factors regulating vagal sensory development: potential role in obesities of developmental origin.
Physiology & behavior - 22 Apr 2008
Fox Edward A, Murphy Michelle C
Abstract excerpt
Contributors to increased obesity in children may include perinatal under- or overnutrition. Humans and rodents raised under these conditions develop obesity, which like obesities of other etiologies has been associated with increased meal size. Since vagal sensory innervation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract transmits satiation signals that regulate meal size, one mechanism through which abnormal perinatal...
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