When we don’t eat, hunger-inducing neurons in the brain’s hypothalamus start eating bits of themselves (autophagy), sending a hunger signal to prompt eating, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found in experiments with mice.
They said the new findings suggest that treatments aimed at blocking autophagy may prove useful as hunger-fighting weapons in the war against obesity.
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