Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Olfactory specificity regulates lipid metabolism through neuroendocrine signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans

  • Ayse Sena Mutlu,
  • Shihong Max Gao,
  • Haining Zhang,
  • Meng C. Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15296-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Olfaction is a key sensory modality with high diversity and olfactory defects has been associated with metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders. Here, the authors discovered that specific olfactory inputs actively regulate lipid metabolism in a dynamic and reversible manner.