Energy Sparing Orexigenic Inflammation of Obesity

Publication date: 5 July 2017
Source:Cell Metabolism, Volume 26, Issue 1
Author(s): Aileen Lee, Vishwa Deep Dixit
The neuro-immune interactions that integrate host metabolism in health and disease are unclear. A new study by Valdearcos et al. (2017) describes how sensing of high-fat diet by microglia, brain's resident innate immune cells, recruits additional bone-marrow-derived myeloid cells into the hypothalamus to produce inflammation and cause weight gain.

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The neuro-immune interactions that integrate host metabolism in health and disease are unclear. A new study by Valdearcos et al. (2017) describes how sensing of high-fat diet by microglia, brain's resident innate immune cells, recruits additional bone-marrow-derived myeloid cells into the hypothalamus to produce inflammation and cause weight gain.


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