Diet-induced obesity causes ghrelin resistance

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1011274

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Diet-induced obesity is the foremost health concern in today�s society and causes many metabolic problems that lead to type diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This grant identifies ghrelin resistance, as a novel metabolic adaptation during obesity. Ghrelin is a hormone that normally stimulates food intake and body weight gain, however during obesity ghrelin does not stimulate food intake. Artificial induction of ghrelin resistance will restrict the development of diet _induced obesity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $411,735.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cell Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

central nervous system (CNS) | depression | diabetes | energy metabolism | food intake | ghrelin | hypothalamus | neuroendocrinology | obesity | stress response

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