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Arcuate nucleus proopiomelanocortin neurons mediate the acute anorectic actions of leukemia inhibitory factor via gp130.
Endocrinology - 1 Feb 2010
Grossberg Aaron J, Scarlett Jarrad M, Zhu XinXia, Bowe Darren D, Batra Ayesha K, Braun Theodore P, Marks Daniel L
Abstract excerpt
The proinflammatory cytokine leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is induced in disease states and is known to inhibit food intake when administered centrally. However, the neural pathways underlying this effect are not well understood. We demonstrate that LIF acutely inhibits food intake by directly activating pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. We show that arcuate POMC...
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