Adaptive sugar sensors in hypothalamic feeding circuits.

Brain glucose sensing is critical for healthy energy balance, but how appropriate neurocircuits encode both small changes and large background values of glucose levels is unknown. Here, we report several features of hypothalamic orexin neurons, cells essential for normal wakefulness and feeding: (i)...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Williams, R, Alexopoulos, H, Jensen, LT, Fugger, L, Burdakov, D
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2008

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