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The suppression of ghrelin signaling mitigates age‐associated thermogenic impairment.
Aging - 1 Dec 2014
Lin Ligen, Lee Jong Han, Bongmba Odelia Y N, Ma Xiaojun, Zhu Xiongwei, Sheikh-Hamad David, Sun Yuxiang
Abstract excerpt
Aging is associated with severe thermogenic impairment, which contributes to obesity and diabetes in aging. We previously reported that ablation of the ghrelin receptor, growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS‐R), attenuates age‐associated obesity and insulin resistance. Ghrelin and obestatin are derived from the same preproghrelin gene. Here we showed that in brown adipocytes, ghrelin decreases the expression...
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