Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Lateral hypothalamic leptin receptor neurons drive hunger-gated food-seeking and consummatory behaviours in male mice

  • Young Hee Lee,
  • Yu-Been Kim,
  • Kyu Sik Kim,
  • Mirae Jang,
  • Ha Young Song,
  • Sang-Ho Jung,
  • Dong-Soo Ha,
  • Joon Seok Park,
  • Jaegeon Lee,
  • Kyung Min Kim,
  • Deok-Hyeon Cheon,
  • Inhyeok Baek,
  • Min-Gi Shin,
  • Eun Jeong Lee,
  • Sang Jeong Kim,
  • Hyung Jin Choi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37044-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Eating behviours consist of seeking and consummatory phases. Here, authors show that two distinct lateral hypothalamic leptin receptor neurons orchestrate seeking and consummatory phases of eating behaviour via hunger signal, Neuropeptide Y.