A Receptor That Controls Appetite Presents a Target for Anorexia, Suggests Mouse Study (2 of 3) (VIDEO)

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MC3R-positive neurons in major regions of the hypothalamus in mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 21, 2021, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Sweeney at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI; and colleagues was titled, "The melanocortin-3 receptor is a pharmacological target for the regulation of anorexia."

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[Credit: P. Sweeney <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2021)]

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