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Fat Metabolism Regulates Satiety Behavior in C. elegans.
Scientific reports - 21 Apr 2016
Hyun Moonjung, Davis Kristen, Lee Inhwan, Kim Jeongho, Dumur Catherine, You Young-Jai
Abstract excerpt
Animals change feeding behavior depending on their metabolic status; starved animals are eager to eat and satiated animals stop eating. C. elegans exhibits satiety quiescence under certain conditions that mimics many aspects of post-prandial sleep in mammals. Here we show that this feeding behavior depends on fat metabolism mediated by the SREBP-SCD pathway, an acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) and certain nuclear...
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