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A subset of sweet-sensing neurons identified by IR56d are necessaryand sufficient for fatty acid taste
2017-08-10
Abstract excerpt
Fat represents a calorically potent food source that yields approximately twice the amount of energy as carbohydrates or proteins per unit of mass. The highly palatable taste of FAs promotes food consumption, activates reward circuitry, and is thought to contribute to hedonic feeding underlying many metabolism-related disorders. Despite a role in the etiology of metabolic diseases, little is known about how dietar...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1a855504-2b67-5ef7-83c0-aa2cb355c2b8
- DOI
- 10.1101/174623