Sex difference in physical activity, energy expenditure and obesity driven by a subpopulation of hypothalamic POMC neurons

• Main Authors: Luke K. Burke (Author), Barbora Doslikova (Author), Giuseppe D'Agostino (Author), Megan Greenwald-Yarnell (Author), Teodora Georgescu (Author), Raffaella Chianese (Author), Pablo B. Martinez de Morentin (Author), Emmanuel Ogunnowo-Bada (Author), Celine Cansell (Author), Lourdes Valencia-Torres (Author), Alastair S. Garfield (Author), John Apergis-Schoute (Author), Daniel D. Lam (Author), John R. Speakman (Author), Marcelo Rubinstein (Author), Malcolm J. Low (Author), Justin J. Rochford (Author), Martin G. Myers (Author), Mark L. Evans (Author), Lora K. Heisler (Author)
• 格式: 圖書
• 出版: Elsevier, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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Objective: Obesity is one of the primary healthcare challenges of the 21st century. Signals relaying information regarding energy needs are integrated within the brain to influence body weight. Central among these integration nodes are the brain pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) peptides, perturbations of...