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Gastrointestinal weight-loss surgery: glimpses at the molecular level.
Drug discovery today - 1 Jul 2013
Freudenberg Johannes M, Rajpal Neetu, Way James M, Magid-Slav Michal, Rajpal Deepak K
Abstract excerpt
Pharmacotherapy for obesity remains a key challenge, and gastrointestinal weight-loss surgery remains a preferred option to help reduce excess body weight along with resolution of several comorbidities associated with obesity. This offers a unique opportunity to study the underlying mechanisms of gastro-intestinal weight-loss surgery to develop effective and less invasive long-term therapeutic interventions...
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