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From The Labs 

The making of a ‘couch potato mouse’

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments AgRP neurons, couch potato, DNA methylation, epigenetics, Exercise, hypothalamus, overnutrition, Research

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

October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments appetite, dopamine, hypothalamus, Mood, POMC neurons, Research, Stress

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

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments appetite, Brain, GIP, gut, high-fat diet, hypothalamus, leptin, Obesity, overnutrition, Research

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

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments body weight, hypothalamus, Obesity, Pomc, Research, SRC-1

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

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments appetite, Brain, chromosome 17, hippocampus, hypothalamus, intellectual disability, Memory, NCOR1/2, neurodevelopmental defects, Research

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

September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments appetite control, Brain, gender differences, hypothalamus, POMC neurons, Research, TAp63

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

January 19, 2018February 5, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 1 Comment AgRP neurons, apetite control, appetite control, asprosin, blood-brain barrier, endocrinology, extreme thinnes, hypothalamus, neonatal progeroid syndrome, ovesity, POMC neurons

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

November 9, 2017 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments AgRP neurons, anticoagulant, appetite control, heparin, hypothalamus, weight control, weight gain

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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