Deletion of leptin signaling in vagal afferent neurons results in hyperphagia and obesity

The vagal afferent pathway senses hormones released from the gut in response to nutritional cues and relays these signals to the brain. We tested the hypothesis that leptin resistance in vagal afferent neurons (VAN) is responsible for the onset of hyperphagia by developing a novel conditional knocko...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Lartigue, Guillaume, Ronveaux, Charlotte C., Raybould, Helen E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142400/