Discovery opens door to development of new drugs to control weight gain and obesity. 4 years ago, Kokoeva and her team set out to explore which brain cells might play a role in the process of leptin sensing and weight gain. The answer, it turns out, lies in the median eminence, a brain structure at the base of the hypothalamus.
The McGill team has now discovered that without NG2-glia cells in place in the median eminence, the leptin receptors in the brain n...
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