Acts of appetite: neural circuits governing the appetitive, consummatory, and terminating phases of feeding

IC Alcantara, APM Tapia, Y Aponte, MJ Krashes - Nature metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
The overconsumption of highly caloric and palatable foods has caused a surge in obesity
rates in the past half century, thereby posing a healthcare challenge due to the array of …

The structural and functional complexity of the integrative hypothalamus

H Fong, J Zheng, D Kurrasch - Science, 2023 - science.org
The hypothalamus (“hypo” meaning below, and “thalamus” meaning bed) consists of
regulatory circuits that support basic life functions that ensure survival. Sitting at the interface …

HypoMap—a unified single-cell gene expression atlas of the murine hypothalamus

L Steuernagel, BYH Lam, P Klemm, GKC Dowsett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The hypothalamus plays a key role in coordinating fundamental body functions. Despite
recent progress in single-cell technologies, a unified catalog and molecular characterization …

A single-cell map of antisense oligonucleotide activity in the brain

MA Mortberg, JE Gentile, NM Nadaf… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) dosed into cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) distribute broadly
throughout the central nervous system (CNS). By modulating RNA, they hold the promise of …

Acetylcholine deficiency disrupts extratelencephalic projection neurons in the prefrontal cortex in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Q Sun, J Zhang, A Li, M Yao, G Liu, S Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Short-term memory deficits have been associated with prefrontal cortex (PFC) dysfunction in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD mouse models. Extratelencephalic projection (ET) …

Microfluidics for neuronal cell and circuit engineering

R Habibey, JE Rojo Arias, J Striebel… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The widespread adoption of microfluidic devices among the neuroscience and neurobiology
communities has enabled addressing a broad range of questions at the molecular, cellular …

Toggling between food-seeking and self-preservation behaviors via hypothalamic response networks

I de Araujo Salgado, C Li, CJ Burnett, SR Gonzalez… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Motivated behaviors are often studied in isolation to assess labeled lines of neural
connections underlying innate actions. However, in nature, multiple systems compete for …

A hypothalamic dopamine locus for psychostimulant-induced hyperlocomotion in mice

S Korchynska, P Rebernik, M Pende, L Boi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The lateral septum (LS) has been implicated in the regulation of locomotion. Nevertheless,
the neurons synchronizing LS activity with the brain's clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus …

Ontogenetic rules for the molecular diversification of hypothalamic neurons

M Benevento, T Hökfelt, T Harkany - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
The hypothalamus is an evolutionarily conserved endocrine interface that, among other
roles, links central homeostatic control to adaptive bodily responses by releasing hormones …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the aging hypothalamus, one cell at a time

KH Hajdarovic, D Yu, AE Webb - Trends in neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
The hypothalamus is a brain region that integrates signals from the periphery and the
environment to maintain organismal homeostasis. To do so, specialized hypothalamic …