MC4R-expressing glutamatergic neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus regulate feeding and are synaptically connected to the parabrachial nucleus

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• Publication year

  2014

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  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2014-08-25

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1407843111PMID 25157144PMCID PMC4246954
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