Cannabinoids enhance gastric X/A-like cells activity.

It has been reported that cannabinoids may cause overeating in humans and in laboratory animals. Although, endogenous cannabinoids and their receptors (CB1) have been found in the hypothalamus, and recently also in gastrointestinal tract, the precise mechanism of appetite control by cannabinoids rem...

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Main Authors: Bogusław Sawicki, Robert Lukasz Zbucki, Anna Hryniewicz, Maria Małgorzata Winnicka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Via Medica 2008-06-01
Series:Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica
Online Access:http://czasopisma.viamedica.pl/fhc/article/view/4436