Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1845-1853.e1 , May 2010

Gastric Bypass Increases Energy Expenditure in Rats

  • Marco Bueter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Investigative Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    • Department of Surgery, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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  • Christian Löwenstein

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Zürich Centre for Integrative Human Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Torsten Olbers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Investigative Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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  • Maggie Wang

      Affiliations

    • Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  • Nina L. Cluny

      Affiliations

    • Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  • Stephen R. Bloom

      Affiliations

    • Department of Investigative Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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  • Keith A. Sharkey

      Affiliations

    • Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  • Thomas A. Lutz

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Zürich Centre for Integrative Human Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Carel W. le Roux

      Affiliations

    • Department of Investigative Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Carel le Roux, MD, PhD, Imperial Weight Centre, Imperial College London, W6 8RF, United Kingdom. fax: (44) 0 20 83838320

Received 29 May 2009 ,Accepted 6 November 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; to M.B.); by the Swiss National Research Foundation (to T.L., C.L.); by a Department of Health Clinician scientist award (to S.B. and C.le R.); support from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre funding scheme to Imperial College London; by the Markin Undergraduate Student Research Program (to M.W.); and from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (to K.A.S.).

PII: S0016-5085(09)02002-2

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.11.012

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1845-1853.e1 , May 2010

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