Energy Metabolism and Obesity presents an up-to-date overview of the many aspects of energy balance and its relationships to disease processes resulting from excess energy consumption and storage. Topics covered include energy storage and partitioning, control of feeding and physical activity, adipocyte biology, and the development of obesity-related comorbidities.

Unique, authoritative, comprehensive treatment of most important research and clinical aspects of energy metabolism and obesity

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Molecular Physiology of Monogenic and Syndromic Obesities in Humans.- Leptin Signaling In the Brain.- Inactivating Melanocortin 4 Receptor Mutations and Human Obesity.- The Role of Central Melanocortins in Cachexia.- The Efferent Arm of the Energy Balance Regulatory Pathway: Neuroendocrinology and Pathology.- Adiponectin: A Multifunctional Adipokine.- The Role of the Gastrointestinal Hormones Ghrelin, Peptide YY, and Glucagon-like Peptide-1 in the Regulation of Energy Balance.- The Role of Growth Hormone Secretagogues and Ghrelin in Feeding and Body Composition.- Interaction Between Physical Activity and Genetic Factors in Complex Metabolic Disease.- 11?-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1 and Obesity.- Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Model of Disordered Energy Homeostasis.- Antipsychotic MedicationInduced Weight Gain and Risk for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.- Treatment of Insulin Resistance in Youth: The Role of Metformin.- The Surgical Approach to Morbid Obesity.