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Review
. 2007 Aug:22:241-51.
doi: 10.1152/physiol.00010.2007.

Brain glucose sensing, counterregulation, and energy homeostasis

Nell Marty  1 , Michel Dallaporta, Bernard Thorens
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Brain glucose sensing, counterregulation, and energy homeostasis

Nell Marty et al. Physiology (Bethesda). 2007 Aug.
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Abstract

Neuronal circuits in the central nervous system play a critical role in orchestrating the control of glucose and energy homeostasis. Glucose, beside being a nutrient, is also a signal detected by several glucose-sensing units that are located at different anatomical sites and converge to the hypothalamus to cooperate with leptin and insulin in controlling the melanocortin pathway.

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