Translating biased signaling in the ghrelin receptor system into differential in vivo functions

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Significance Obesity is a major health threat of the twenty-first century, impacting individual patients and healthcare expenditure. Due to safety concerns, few antiobesity treatments with only moderate effect remain on the market. The ghrelin receptor is an attractive target for the development of novel antiobesity drugs, since ghrelin increases both fat accumulation and food intake. However, ghrelin also...

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