Csaba Varga, PhD, Anikó Pósa, PhD, Krisztina Kedvesné Kupai: The metabolic syndrome
III.5.C. The food intake-regulating hormones
The categories of food intake-regulating hormones
| 
 Stimulating (orexigens)  | 
 Inhibitors (anorexigens)  | 
| 
 1. galanin  | 
 CCK  | 
| 
 2. NPY  | 
 leptin  | 
| 
 3. ghrelin  | 
 gastrin-releasing peptide  | 
| 
 4. orexin  | 
 neuromedin B  | 
| 
 5. N  | 
 dopamine  | 
| 
 6. GH  | 
 serotonin  | 
| 
 7. glucocorticoids  | 
 insulin  | 
| 
 8. MCH  | 
 amylin  | 
| 
 9. androgens  | 
 cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6)  | 
| 
 10. MCH  | 
 α-MSH  | 
| 
 11. GABA  | 
 CRH  | 
| 
 12. AGRP  | 
 GLP-1  | 
| 
 13. opioid peptides  | 
 CART  | 
| 
 14.  | 
 neuromedin B (intestinal peptide)  | 
| 
 15.  | 
 enterostatin (intestinal peptide)  | 
| 
 16.  | 
 bombesin  | 
| 
 17.  | 
 estrogens  | 
| 
 18.  | 
 PYY  | 
| 
 19.  | 
 POMC  | 
| 
 20.  | 
 TRH  | 
| 
 21.  | 
 CNTF (Ciliary neurotrophic factor)  | 
| 
 22.  | 
 GHRH  |