title: Expanding the brain glucosensing territory.
abstract: Brain glucosensing neurons monitor extracellular glucose concentrations and act to defend normoglycemia. To date, the majority of these neurons have been ascribed to hypothalamic and hindbrain centers. In this issue, Garfield and colleagues (2014) demonstrate that cholecystokinin-expressing neurons in the rodent parabrachial nucleus function as glucosensors that counter-regulate hypoglycemia.
authors.affiliation: The J.B. Pierce Laboratory, 290 Congress Ave, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, Suite 901, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Physiology, Yale University School of Arts and Sciences, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: iaraujo@jbpierce.org.
authors.forename: Ivan E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: de Araujo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002766:Cholecystokinin / Q000378:metabolism*; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D002766:Cholecystokinin