Salivary PYY: a putative bypass to satiety.

Peptide YY(3-36) is a satiation hormone released postprandially into the bloodstream from L-endocrine cells in the gut epithelia. In the current report, we demonstrate PYY(3-36) is also present in murine as well as in human saliva. In mice, salivary PYY(3-36) derives from plasma and is also synthesi...

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Main Authors: Andres Acosta, Maria D Hurtado, Oleg Gorbatyuk, Michael La Sala, David Duncan, George Aslanidi, Martha Campbell-Thompson, Lei Zhang, Herbert Herzog, Antonis Voutetakis, Bruce J Baum, Sergei Zolotukhin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3189958?pdf=render