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Benoit Cudennec1, Rozenn Ravallec
1ProBioGEM - Lille 1 University, Science and Technology - IUT A - EA 1026 - Polytech Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. benoit.cudennec@univ-lille1.fr
Abstract:
Bioactive peptides obtained from marine species and marine by-products are showing these days a great interest in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications due to their wide range of biological activities. This mini-review focuses on the potential of marine peptides to be used as appetite suppressive molecules in the prevention and/or in the treatment of obesity syndrome. An important and promising aspect in the fight against obesity is the study of anorexigenic gut hormones, like cholecystokinin (CCK) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), that are synthetized by enteroendocrine cells in the presence of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. Recent works which have focused on the interaction between marine peptides and CCK and GLP-1 are here reviewed.
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