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Nature Communications maps human AgRP and POMC neuron transcriptomes

Researchers profiled the hypothalamic neuron populations that govern energy homeostasis, the same circuitry targeted by appetite drugs.

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By Priya Raman · Science Reporter
Aug 14 20:00 ETSource: Nature communications

The wire

  1. 01Transcriptome profiling of human hypothalamic AgRP and POMC neurons regulating energy homeostasis published in Nature Communications.
  2. 02Human data on appetite-controlling neurons informs obesity and metabolic drug research.
  3. 03Direct implications for specific therapeutics are not stated in the excerpt.

From the source

Transcriptome profiling of human hypothalamic agouti-related protein and proopiomelanocortin neurons regulating energy homeostasis

Nature communications · 2026 Aug 15 · Takács S, Skrapits K, Göcz B et al.

Read at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Source URL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42736279/