Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160101119
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Is FGF21 the master regulator of protein intake? The project plans to bring together two major, rapidly growing disciplines – nutritional geometry and metabolic signalling – to address a topic of fundamental biological significance: the regulation of protein intake. A specific capacity to regulate protein intake has been shown for organisms spanning slime moulds to humans, yet the controlling mechanisms remain elusive. The project aims to test the hypothesis that fibroblast growth factor 21, released from the liver under low protein nutrition, is a master regulator of protein intake. Understanding the mechanisms of protein appetite may have implications for organismal biology, understanding social interactions, the structure of food webs and the health and welfare of food and companion animals and humans.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $379,400.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Animal Physiology - Systems | Animal Cell and Molecular Biology | Physiology | Systems Biology
