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Fattening up without overeating
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Fattening up without overeating

Jennifer L Watts
Cell metabolism, Vol.8(2), pp.95-96
08/2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2008.07.003
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110233
PMCID: PMC2601642
PMID: 18680709
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Abstract

Caenorhabditis elegans - physiology Adipose Tissue - physiology Animals Movement - physiology Nervous System - metabolism Behavior, Animal - physiology Appetite Regulation - physiology Energy Metabolism - physiology Transforming Growth Factor beta - metabolism Starvation - metabolism
When food becomes scarce, animals undergo distinct metabolic, behavioral, and physiological changes that allow them to survive. In this issue, Greer et al. (2008) take advantage of the relatively simple and well-characterized nervous system of C. elegans to elucidate a neural circuit regulating feeding behavior and fat storage.

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