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Live Images of GLUT4 Protein Trafficking in Mouse Primary Hypothalamic Neurons Using Deconvolution Microscopy
Published on: December 7, 2017
[Metabolic syndrome. Origin within the central nervous system?]
1Medizinische Klinik I, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Deutschland. achim.peters@uni-luebeck.de
Abstract:
All efforts based on current concepts of obesity have failed to stop the epidemic. Hitherto, the question of body mass regulation focused on regulatory principles centered on the hypothalamus. We present the novel view that the brain (cerebral hemispheres, hypothalamus) requests energy in an active manner from the body (allocation) or the environment (food intake). Disruption of one of the cerebral energy request pathways is highly relevant to the development of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2. We have reviewed the literature from this new perspective, putting the brain as the focal midpoint of all metabolic activity.
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