and anorexigenic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC)/cocaine- and amphetamine-related transcript (CART) neurons that modulate appetite control. There are projections from the ARC to other hypothalamic ...

Although POMC and AGRP/NPY neurons are central to ... in light of previous work mapping neuronal populations in the human hypothalamus. “We’ve long known that the hypothalamus plays a role ...

See Yasuda and Mayford (2006) Neuron. POMC: proopiomelanocortin is endogenously expressed in the pituitary gland and in the arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus. Although endogenous POMC is absent in ...

The hypothalamus in the brain contains the temperature monitoring centre for the body. The hypothalamus receives nerve impulses from structures in the skin called thermoreceptors, which give ...