The gut hormone peptide YY 3-36 [PYY (3-36)] has been suggested to posses anorexigenic actions in animals and human adults. However, its circulating concentrations and function have not been studied ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Between 25 million and 45 million people in the United States live with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic disorder ...

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 ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic condition that causes gut pain and bloating, and women are far more likely to ...

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 ...

PLYMOUTH – Reaching 100 career goals as a junior is a milestone mark for a lacrosse player. Plymouth North junior Addie Pyy recently became one of the newest members on an elite list. Pyy had 95 ...

PLYMOUTH – So on one side there’s Macey Shriner. An elite track athlete who is a multiple time Patriot League All-Star and about to embark on the next phase of her life as a Division 1 athlete at Penn ...

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 ...