Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Serotonin and dopamine modulate aging in response to food odor and availability

  • Hillary A. Miller,
  • Shijiao Huang,
  • Elizabeth S. Dean,
  • Megan L. Schaller,
  • Angela M. Tuckowski,
  • Allyson S. Munneke,
  • Safa Beydoun,
  • Scott D. Pletcher,
  • Scott F. Leiser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30869-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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This report finds that dietary restriction, the most extensively studied anti-aging intervention, can be mimicked by blocking food odour signaling and identifies a neural network of food perception that functions through serotonin and dopamine.