Synaptic plasticity in neuronal circuits regulating energy balance

Role of GABA Release From Leptin Receptor-Expressing Neurons in Body Weight Regulation

(2012) Yuanzhong Xu et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Anhedonia requires MC4R-mediated synaptic adaptations in nucleus accumbens

(2012) Byung Kook Lim et al.   NATURE

Deconstruction of a neural circuit for hunger

(2012) Deniz Atasoy et al.   NATURE

Fat incites tanycytes to neurogenesis

(2012) Marcelo O Dietrich et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Fasting Activation of AgRP Neurons Requires NMDA Receptors and Involves Spinogenesis and Increased Excitatory Tone

(2012) Tiemin Liu et al.   NEURON

Hunger States Switch a Flip-Flop Memory Circuit via a Synaptic AMPK-Dependent Positive Feedback Loop

(2011) Yunlei Yang et al.   CELL

Defining POMC Neurons Using Transgenic Reagents: Impact of TransientPomcExpression in Diverse Immature Neuronal Populations

(2011) Stephanie L. Padilla et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Peroxisome proliferation–associated control of reactive oxygen species sets melanocortin tone and feeding in diet-induced obesity

(2011) Sabrina Diano et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Endocannabinoids Gate State-Dependent Plasticity of Synaptic Inhibition in Feeding Circuits

(2011) Karen M. Crosby et al.   NEURON

Serotonin 2C Receptor Activates a Distinct Population of Arcuate Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons via TRPC Channels

(2011) Jong-Woo Sohn et al.   NEURON

Leptin Action on GABAergic Neurons Prevents Obesity and Reduces Inhibitory Tone to POMC Neurons

(2011) Linh Vong et al.   NEURON

Relative Number and Distribution of Murine Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin Neurons Innervating Distinct Target Sites

(2011) Connie M. King et al.   PLoS One

Corticosterone Regulates Synaptic Input Organization of POMC and NPY/AgRP Neurons in Adult Mice

(2010) Erika Gyengesi et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Agrp Neurons Mediate Sirt1's Action on the Melanocortin System and Energy Balance: Roles for Sirt1 in Neuronal Firing and Synaptic Plasticity

(2010) M. O. Dietrich et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Leptin Excites Proopiomelanocortin Neurons via Activation of TRPC Channels

(2010) J. Qiu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Segregation of Acute Leptin and Insulin Effects in Distinct Populations of Arcuate Proopiomelanocortin Neurons

(2010) K. W. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Pomc-expressing progenitors give rise to antagonistic neuronal populations in hypothalamic feeding circuits

(2010) Stephanie L Padilla et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Circadian and Homeostatic Regulation of Structural Synaptic Plasticity in Hypocretin Neurons

(2010) Lior Appelbaum et al.   NEURON

Synaptic input organization of the melanocortin system predicts diet-induced hypothalamic reactive gliosis and obesity

(2010) T. L. Horvath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Obesity and leptin resistance: distinguishing cause from effect

(2010) Martin G. Myers et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Synaptic Mechanisms for Plasticity in Neocortex

(2009) Daniel E. Feldman   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Stringent Specificity in the Construction of a GABAergic Presynaptic Inhibitory Circuit

(2009) J. Nicholas Betley et al.   CELL

Proopiomelanocortin Expression in both GABA and Glutamate Neurons

(2009) S. T. Hentges et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain

(2009) Anthony Holtmaat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

A FLEX Switch Targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to Multiple Cell Types for Imaging and Long-Range Circuit Mapping

(2008) D. Atasoy et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

UCP2 mediates ghrelin’s action on NPY/AgRP neurons by lowering free radicals

(2008) Zane B. Andrews et al.   NATURE

Ghrelin raises [Ca2+]i via AMPK in hypothalamic arcuate nucleus NPY neurons

(2007) Daisuke Kohno et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS