A Spotlight on Appetite.

Neuron

Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Center for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address:

Published: February 2018

Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al., 2017; Romere et al., 2016).

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965268PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.050DOI Listing

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