Cholecystokinin revisited: CCK and the hunger trap in anorexia nervosa.

OBJECTIVE: Despite a number of studies in the past decades, the role of Cholecystokinin (CCK) in anorexia nervosa (AN) has remained uncertain. In this study a highly specific assay for the biologically active part of CCK was used in patients with bulimic as well as with the restricting type of AN wh...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Ulrich Cuntz, Paul Enck, Erich Frühauf, Peter Lehnert, Rudolf L Riepl, Manfred M Fichter, Bärbel Otto
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547916?pdf=render