Feeding Behavior: Hypocretin/Orexin Neurons Act between Food Seeking and Eating

Xiao-Bing Gao; Tamas L Horvath

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.069

Feeding Behavior: Hypocretin/Orexin Neurons Act between Food Seeking and Eating

Curr Biol. 2016 Sep 26;26(18):R845-R847. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.069.

Authors

Xiao-Bing Gao¹, Tamas L Horvath²

Affiliations

¹ Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
² 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.

PMID: 27676302
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.069

Abstract

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.

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MeSH terms

Eating
Feeding Behavior
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Neurons
Neuropeptides*
Orexins*

Substances

Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Neuropeptides
Orexins