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Too fat to fly? New brain circuits regulate obesity in Drosophila
Karla R Kaun1, Ulrike Heberlein
1Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-2822, USA.
Neuron
|August 15, 2009
Abstract:
In mammals, fat store levels are regulated by brain centers that control food intake and metabolism. A new study by Al-Anzi and colleagues in this issue of Neuron identifies neurons with similar functions in Drosophila, further establishing the fly as a legitimate model to study obesity.
