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Nature Medicine - 12, 615 - 617 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0606-615

mTOR tells the brain that the body is hungry

Barbara B Kahn1 & Martin G Myers Jr.2

1  Barbara B. Kahn is in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. bkahn@bidmc.harvard.edu

2  Martin G. Myers, Jr. is in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. mgmyers@umich.edu

kanjiThe multitasking signaling protein mTOR integrates nutritional and hormonal cues in the brain, modulating feeding and body weight.

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