Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

An excitatory ventromedial hypothalamus to paraventricular thalamus circuit that suppresses food intake

  • Jia Zhang,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Patrick Sweeney,
  • Yunlei Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20093-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) serves as a satiety center in the brain, however, the neural circuits involved are incompletely understood. Here, the authors decipher a neural circuit from VMH to the paraventricular thalamus that suppresses food intake.