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Quinine controls body weight gain without affecting food intake in male C57BL6 mice

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Physiology, February 2013
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Title
Quinine controls body weight gain without affecting food intake in male C57BL6 mice
Published in
BMC Physiology, February 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6793-13-5
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Authors

Philippe Cettour-Rose, Carole Bezençon, Christian Darimont, Johannes le Coutre, Sami Damak

Abstract

Quinine is a natural molecule commonly used as a flavouring agent in tonic water. Diet supplementation with quinine leads to decreased body weight and food intake in rats. Quinine is an in vitro inhibitor of Trpm5, a cation channel expressed in taste bud cells, the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas. The objective of this work is to determine the effect of diet supplementation with quinine on body weight and body composition in male mice, to investigate its mechanism of action, and whether the effect is mediated through Trpm5.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 3%
Belgium 1 3%
Unknown 30 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 19%
Student > Master 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Professor 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Other 7 22%
Unknown 4 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Chemistry 2 6%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 7 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 October 2022.
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#2,876,991
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Outputs from BMC Physiology
#16
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#30,699
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Physiology
#3
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