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Stress, diet and abdominal obesity: Y?

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In response to intense stress, neuropeptide Y facilitates all of the processes that result in adipose tissue growth, but only when mice are fed a palatable high-fat diet (pages 803–811).

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Figure 1: A new role for neuropeptide Y.

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