Tumor growth is associated with profound metabolic and neurochemical alterations, which can lead to the onset of anorexia−cachexia syndrome. Anorexia is defined as the loss of the desire to eat, while ...

A study led by scientists at the Korean Research Institute of BioScience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Daejeon is the first to demonstrate that Dilp8/INSL3-Lgr3/8-NUCB, neuropeptide y (NPY) signaling ...

University of Oklahoma researcher Min Li, Ph.D., is the lead author of a new publication in Cancer Cell about cancer cachexia. Cachexia is a muscle-wasting and fat-loss condition that most often ...

Cancer-associated cachexia is a multifactorial wasting disorder characterized by anorexia, unintentional weight loss (WL, skeletal muscle mass with or without loss of fat mass), progressive functional ...

Dietary Fat and Carbohydrates Are Independently Associated With Circulating Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 and Insulin-Like Growth Factor–Binding Protein 3 Concentrations in Healthy Adults PURPOSE: ...

Eating disorders are often thought of as body image disorders with symptoms of food restriction and purging. In most cases, the goal of these behaviors is to prevent weight gain. Not all eating ...

Consistent Improvements in Weight Gain, Lean Body Mass, and Activity were Observed Across Treated Patients including +6.4% Mean Weight Gain at 12 Weeks vs −5.4% Mean Weight Loss on Placebo The Phase 2 ...

The effect of outpatient moderate dose bolus (MDB) interleukin-2 (IL-2) on vitamin C levels in patients with metastatic melanoma or kidney cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO ...

Cachexia is a process that accompanies many chronic diseases, and consists of a combination of wasting of lean body mass, increased energy expenditure, and a paradoxical loss of appetite. Cachexia ...

The optimal therapy for anorexia and cachexia is curing the underlying cancer. [23] Unfortunately, this goal is often not attainable with currently available treatments. Thus, an integrated ...