A Spotlight on Appetite

Lisa R Beutler; Zachary A Knight

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.050

A Spotlight on Appetite

Neuron. 2018 Feb 21;97(4):739-741. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.050.

Authors

Lisa R Beutler¹, Zachary A Knight²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
² Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Center for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: zachary.knight@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al., 2017; Romere et al., 2016).

MeSH terms

Agouti-Related Protein / physiology
Animals
Appetite Regulation*
Eating
Fibrillin-1
Ghrelin / physiology
Humans
Mice, Transgenic
Microfilament Proteins / physiology*
Neurons / physiology*
Peptide Fragments / physiology*
Peptide Hormones / physiology*

Substances

Agouti-Related Protein
FBN1 protein, human
Fibrillin-1
Ghrelin
Microfilament Proteins
Peptide Fragments
Peptide Hormones

Abstract

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