Oxyntomodulin and peptide tyrosine-tyrosine (PYY) are released from intestinal enteroendocrine cells in response to a meal. These circulating hormones are considered to be satiety signals, as they ...

The beneficial effects of metformin treatment in women with type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are, in part, attributable to weight reduction, possibly caused by altered levels of ...

Peptide YY (PYY), a hormone produced by gut endocrine cells that was already known to control appetite, also plays an important role in maintaining the balance of fungi in the digestive system of ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that a hormone known as peptide YY (PYY), which is produced by gut endocrine cells and known to be involved in controlling appetite by ...

Researchers have investigated the role that estrogen plays in signaling more gut pain, and it isn't working alone.

When it was first discovered, scientists dubbed peptide YY3-36 (PYY) the fullness hormone. That’s because PYY–a protein produced by the gut–functions as a powerful appetite suppressant, at least in ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(11):612-620. Katie Wynne is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Internal Medicine in the ...