Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Prostaglandin in the ventromedial hypothalamus regulates peripheral glucose metabolism

  • Ming-Liang Lee,
  • Hirokazu Matsunaga,
  • Yuki Sugiura,
  • Takahiro Hayasaka,
  • Izumi Yamamoto,
  • Taiga Ishimoto,
  • Daigo Imoto,
  • Makoto Suematsu,
  • Norifumi Iijima,
  • Kazuhiro Kimura,
  • Sabrina Diano,
  • Chitoku Toda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22431-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The ventromedial hypothalamus regulates systemic glucose metabolism. Here the authors show that cytosolic phospholipase A2 mediated phospholipid metabolism contributes to this regulation in healthy animals but exert deteriorating effects on glucose homeostasis under high-fat-diet feeding.