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Cajal revisited: does the VMH make us fat?

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A new study used several mouse mutants to study insulin receptor function specifically in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH), and found a role for VMH insulin signaling in promoting high-fat diet–induced obesity.

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Figure 1: The chemoarchitecture of the VMH and its contact with local neuronal and humoral inputs.

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  1. Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Chun-Xia Yi and Matthias H. Tschöp are at the Metabolic Disease Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.,

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  2. Thomas Scherer is in the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.,

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