Nature Communications (May 2020)

Estrogen receptor-α expressing neurons in the ventrolateral VMH regulate glucose balance

  • Yanlin He,
  • Pingwen Xu,
  • Chunmei Wang,
  • Yan Xia,
  • Meng Yu,
  • Yongjie Yang,
  • Kaifan Yu,
  • Xing Cai,
  • Na Qu,
  • Kenji Saito,
  • Julia Wang,
  • Ilirjana Hyseni,
  • Matthew Robertson,
  • Badrajee Piyarathna,
  • Min Gao,
  • Sohaib A. Khan,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Rui Chen,
  • Cristian Coarfa,
  • Zhongming Zhao,
  • Qingchun Tong,
  • Zheng Sun,
  • Yong Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15982-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Glucose-sensing neurons are found in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH). Here the authors identify the role of estrogen receptor-α expressing neurons in the ventrolateral subdivision of the VMH in sensing hypoglycemia.