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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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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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From The Labs Image of the Month From the Labs features an image of the laboratory worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. Image credit: Dr. Tao Chen/Wang lab.

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