... insights into the mechanisms controlling food intake and body weight. This increased understanding of the physiological roles of the melanocortin system has opened up the potential for the design and development of rational therapies to treat perturbations in energy homoeostasis. Correspondence: Dr...

... were significantly reduced (pre-feeding median 7.20%/min, range 4.72–12.12%/min, post-feeding median 4.44%/min, range 2.17–6.83%/min, P < 0.05). 17 3 1987 11 5 1987 © 1970 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1970 body weight colonic neoplasms lipids...

...-hydroxycholecalciferol < 10 nmol/l). There was no correlation between MVC, and plasma 25-hydroxycholecalciferol. © 1970 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1970 body height body weight ethnic groups isometric contraction muscles muscle contraction vitamin D vitamin D deficiency...

... increased zinc loss without affecting calcium balance. 30 9 1985 22 10 1985 © 1986 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1986 body weight calcium diet reducing muscle tri-iodothyronine zinc Clinical Science (1986).70, 285-293 285 Changes in bone and muscle...

...Lewis A. Lipsitz; Helene A. Storch; Kenneth L. Minaker; John W. Rowe 1. Orthostatic hypotension, an age-related phenomenon, has been associated with hypertension and body weight variability. To evaluate the relative contributions of blood pressure elevation and abnormalities in extracellular volume...

...R. H. A. Campbell; Hilary L. Brand; J. R. Cox; P. Howard 1. Body weight was measured through forty consecutive illnesses in seventeen patients with oedema in association with chronic bronchitis and hypoxia. All patients were taking diuretic drugs at the time. 2. Body weight increased little...

... environmental and familial factors body weight Clinical Science and Molecular Medicine (1973) 45,35s-45s. LONGITUDINAL CHANGE I N BLOOD PRESSURE IN INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES A N D SOCIAL GROUPS BENJAMIN C. JOHNSON, THOMAS M. KARUNAS A N D F R E D E R I C K H. EPSTEIN University of Michigan, School of Public...

...M. Ulrych; J. Tauber; A. P. Shapiro 1. In 404 male steelmill workers blood pressure and body weight were followed for 15–25 years and their relationships analysed. 2. It appears that age on average has a negligible influence on diastolic pressure and has a positive influence on systolic pressure...