Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Fat incites tanycytes to neurogenesis

I can't quite imagine  a high-fat diet making  it to a therapy protocol in order to help along neurogenesis. But ask your doctor.
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n5/full/nn.3091.html
Tanycytes in the hypothalamic median eminence have now been found to form a metabolically sensitive neurogenic niche in the brain. In adult mice, tanycytes give rise to hypothalamic regulatory neurons in response to a high-fat diet.

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