The making of a ‘couch potato mouse’
Some people love to exercise, but others hate it. Many researchers consider genetics to be the reason for a person’s inclination to exercise, or not
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Exploring the stress-mood-appetite connection
Does stress affect your appetite or your mood? Many people have experienced stressful situations that trigger a particular mood and also change certain feelings toward
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A new gut-brain connection that keeps weight off (or on) the scale
Eating extra servings typically shows up on the scale later, but how this happens has not been clear. In his lab at Baylor College of
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SRC-1 gene is an important regulator of body weight
Maintaining a healthy body weight is no simple matter. In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Yong Xu and his colleagues investigate the
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This brain circuit allows the feeding and memory centers to talk to each other
It was not what the researchers were expecting to find when they set out to investigate how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory. “We knew
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He said/she said about body weight control
When male and female mice eat the same high-fat diet, the males gain significantly more weight than the females. The reasons for this difference between
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The multi-tasking nature of the hormone asprosin
When Dr. Atul Chopra, a medical geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, and his colleagues discovered in 2016 a new hormone called asprosin that regulates
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More than an anticoagulant; heparin also promotes appetite in mice
Naturally-produced heparin is well-known for its role as an anticoagulant. Heparin is also widely used as a medication to prevent blood clotting. “In addition to
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