It sounds like a weight watcher’s dream come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant–the body’s way of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLYMOUTH – America’s Hometown has never seen a high school lacrosse player quite like Annika Pyy, this year’s Old Colony Memorial Plymouth North Female Athlete of the Year. The senior attack and ...

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 ...

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 ...