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    Nature Neuroscience: Singaporean scientists discover the neural circuits that drive eating

    • Last Update: 2021-11-01
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    Recently, Singaporean scientists discovered the neural circuit that drives eating.
    The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Neuroscience under the title "A neural circuit for excessive feeding driven by environmental context in mice"
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    The study found that somatostatin neurons (tuberal nucleus somatostatin neurons, TNSST neurons) in the mouse hypothalamic nodular nucleus can be activated by high-fat and high-sugar “delicious foods”, and activating TNSST neurons can drive satiety.
    The rat's non-steady eating (ie, environmentally-mediated overeating)
    .
    Further studies have found that the activation of TNSST neurons requires input from the hippocampus, and the pairing of "delicious food" with the environment can greatly enhance the synaptic transmission between the hippocampus and TNSST neurons, leading to unsteady eating


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    A neural circuit for excessive feeding driven by environmental context in mice

    Hasan Mohammad, Esra Senol, Martin Graf, Chun-Yao Lee, Qin Li, Qing Liu, Xin Yi Yeo, Menghan Wang, Achilleas Laskaratos, Fuqiang Xu, Sarah Xinwei Luo, Sangyong Jung, George J.


    Augustine & Yu Fu

    Abstract

    Despite notable genetic influences, obesity mainly results from the overconsumption of food, which arises from the interplay of physiological, cognitive and environmental factors.


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