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Fat incites tanycytes to neurogenesis

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Tanycytes in the hypothalamic median eminence have now been found to form a metabolically sensitive neurogenic niche in the brain. In adult mice, tanycytes give rise to hypothalamic regulatory neurons in response to a high-fat diet.

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Figure 1: Neurogenic niches in the hypothalamus.

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  1. Marcelo O. Dietrich and Tamas L. Horvath are in the Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,

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Dietrich, M., Horvath, T. Fat incites tanycytes to neurogenesis. Nat Neurosci 15, 651–653 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3091

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