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Nature Medicine  4, 385 - 386 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0498-385

Orexins and appetite: The big picture of energy homeostasis gets a little bigger

Michael W. Schwartz

Department of Medicine, University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle, Washington 98108, USA email: mschwart@u.washington.edu

The discovery of orexins adds to a rapidly evolving picture of how food intake and body fat are regulated.

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