Ghrelin in Pathological Conditions

Endocrine Journal

Nikos K. NIKOLETTOS¹  Athanasios MILOUSIS¹  Byron ASIMAKOPOULOS¹  Simoni A. KATERGARI¹  Olga PAGONOPOULOU¹ 

[1]Laboratory of Physiology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace

关键词: Ghrelin;    Pathological conditions;   

DOI  :  10.1507/endocrj.K07-106

学科分类：内分泌与代谢学

来源: Japan Endocrine Society

【 摘 要 】

References(173)Cited-By(14)The recently identified gastric hormone ghrelin was initially described as a natural Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor ligand. Apart from ghrelin's first discovered action, which was the stimulation of Growth Hormone release, implications for many other functions have been reported. It seems that ghrelin exhibits an important role in conditions related to processes regulating nutrition, body composition and growth, as well as heart, liver, thyroid or kidney dysfunction. In this review, current available knowledge about ghrelin's role in various pathological conditions is presented.

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