Vaccination against Weight Gain

Obesity endangers the lives of millions of people worldwide, through comorbidities such as heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes, stroke, arthritis, and major depression. New approaches to control body weight remain a high priority. Vaccines traditionally have been used to protect against infectio...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2006-08, Vol.103 (35), p.13226-13231
Main Authors: Zorrilla, Eric P., Iwasaki, Shinichi, Moss, Jason A., Chang, Jason, Otsuji, Jonathan, Inoue, Koki, Meijler, Michael M., Janda, Kim D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Antibodies
Antibodies - blood
Bioavailability
Biological Sciences
Body Composition - immunology
Body weight
body weight changes
Cardiovascular diseases
Energy balance
Energy Metabolism - immunology
Esters
Feed conversion
Feed conversion ratio
Feeding Behavior - physiology
Food intake
Ghrelin
Haptens
Haptens - immunology
Homeostasis - immunology
Immune response
Immunization
Infectious diseases
Inflammation - immunology
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Obesity
Obesity - immunology
Obesity - prevention & control
Peptide Hormones - antagonists & inhibitors
Peptide Hormones - blood
Peptide Hormones - chemistry
Peptide Hormones - immunology
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Rodents
Thinness - immunology
Vaccination
Vaccines
Vaccines - immunology
Vaccines - pharmacology
Vaccines, Subunit - blood
Vaccines, Subunit - immunology
Weight control
Weight gain
Weight Gain - physiology
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