Nature Neuroscience 9, 15 - 16 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nn0106-15
MC4R neurons weigh in differentlyAllison W Xu1
& Gregory S Barsh21
Allison Xu is at the Diabetes Center and the Department of Anatomy at the University of California San Francisco, HSW 1002, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0534, USA. axu@diabetes.ucsf.edu
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Gregory Barsh is in the Department of Genetics and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. gbarsh@cmgm.stanford.edu
Food intake and energy expenditure were thought to be simultaneously controlled by the same group of neurons, but now new evidence shows that they are independently regulated by an anatomically distinct set of melanocortin neurons.
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