Feeding Behavior: Hypocretin/Orexin Neurons Act between Food Seeking and Eating.
A report on the rapid change of activity of hypocretin/orexin cells in response to contact rather than digestion of food delivers new insights into the behavioral control of food intake and systemic energy expenditure.
Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Xiao-Bing
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Gao
Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: tamas.horvath@yale.edu.
Tamas L
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Horvath
D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009474:Neurons; D009479:Neuropeptides; D000068797:Orexins
D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009479:Neuropeptides; D000068797:Orexins