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Nikos Yiannakouris

Harokopio University of Athens, School of Health Science & Education, Department of …
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Olive oil and health: summary of the II international conference on olive oil and health consensus report, Jaén and Córdoba (Spain) 2008

…, JR Villar-Ortiz, F Visioli, N Yiannakouris - Nutrition, metabolism …, 2010 - Elsevier
Olive oil (OO) is the most representative food in the traditional Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet).
Increasing evidences suggest that monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) as a nutrient, OO …

[HTML][HTML] Mediterranean diet and diabetes: prevention and treatment

M Georgoulis, MD Kontogianni, N Yiannakouris - Nutrients, 2014 - mdpi.com
The aim of the present review is to examine current scientific knowledge on the association
between the Mediterranean diet and diabetes mellitus (mostly type 2 diabetes). A definition …

Circulating resistin levels are not associated with obesity or insulin resistance in humans and are not regulated by fasting or leptin administration: cross-sectional and …

JH Lee, JL Chan, N Yiannakouris… - The Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… Subjects taking hormone replacement (n = 5) or oral contraceptive (n = 2) treatment at the
time of the evaluation were included. In addition to adjustment for circulating estrogen levels, …

Body fat mass and macronutrient intake in relation to circulating soluble leptin receptor, free leptin index, adiponectin, and resistin concentrations in healthy humans

M Yannakoulia, N Yiannakouris… - The Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The adipocyte-derived hormones leptin [which circulates in a free form and bound to a
soluble leptin receptor (sOB-R)], adiponectin, and resistin play a key role in regulating energy …

Serum adiponectin levels are inversely associated with overall and central fat distribution but are not directly regulated by acute fasting or leptin administration in …

A Gavrila, JL Chan, N Yiannakouris… - The Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Adiponectin is an adipocyte-secreted protein that circulates in high concentrations in the
serum and acts to increase insulin sensitivity. Previous studies have shown that serum …

The Q223R polymorphism of the leptin receptor gene is significantly associated with obesity and predicts a small percentage of body weight and body composition …

N Yiannakouris, M Yannakoulia… - The Journal of …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… change [lysine (K) to arginine (R) at codon 109], whereas the other two result in changes in
charge [glutamine (Q) to arginine (R) at codon 223 and lysine (K) to asparagine (N) at codon …

Regulation of circulating soluble leptin receptor levels by gender, adiposity, sex steroids, and leptin: observational and interventional studies in humans

JL Chan, S Bluher, N Yiannakouris, MA Suchard… - Diabetes, 2002 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Leptin is an adipocyte-secreted hormone important in energy homeostasis and diverse
physiological processes. A circulating soluble form of the leptin receptor [soluble leptin receptor (…

[PDF][PDF] Exertional rhabdomyolysis during a 246-km continuous running race

…, CA Anastasiou, N Yiannakouris… - Medicine & Science in …, 2006 - academia.edu
YIANNAKOURIS and A. MATALAS. Exertional Rhabdomyolysis … STANSBIE, D., JP
ASTON, NS DALLIMORE, HM WILLIAMS, and N. WILLIS. Effect of exercise on plasma pyruvate …

Disordered eating attitudes: an emerging health problem among Mediterranean adolescents

M Yannakoulia, AL Matalas, N Yiannakouris… - Eating and Weight …, 2004 - Springer
Aim of the present study was to investigate eating attitudes in a group of Mediterranean high
school students. One hundred and twenty high school students participated in this survey. …

Ghrelin levels are not regulated by recombinant leptin administration and/or three days of fasting in healthy subjects

…, J Bullen, JH Lee, N Yiannakouris… - The Journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Ghrelin, a stomach-derived orexigenic peptide, and leptin, a fat-derived anorexigenic
hormone, act primarily in the hypothalamus to regulate energy homeostasis and have been …