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Hailan Liu1, Na Qu2,3,4,5,6, Natalia Valdez Gonzalez7

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 yongx@bcm.edu. hailan.liu@bcm.edu questina@163.com.

概括

暴露于光线会抑制食欲,而黑暗会增加小鼠,老鼠和人类的食物摄入量. 一个新发现的神经回路涉及侧面的 habenula 和背面的 Raphe 核调节这种依赖光的养行为.

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