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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 30, 期 20, 页码 3986-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.084
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31822026, 31500860]
- Beijing Municipal Government
A fundamental question of physiology is how gut-brain signaling stimulates appetite. While many studies have emphasized the importance of vagal afferents to the brain in inducing satiation, little is known about whether and how the vagal-mediated gut-brain pathway senses orexigenic signals and stimulates feeding. Here, we identified a previously uncharacterized population of fasting-activated catecholaminergic neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). After characterizing the anatomical complexity among NTS catecholaminergic neurons, we surprisingly found that activation of NTS epinephrine (ENTS) neurons co-expressing neuropeptide Y (NPY) stimulated feeding, whereas activation of NTS norepinephrine (NENTS) neurons suppressed feeding. Monosynaptic tracing/activation experiments then showed that these NTS neurons receive direct vagal afferents from nodose neurons. Moreover, activation of the vagal/NPY/ENTS neural circuit stimulated feeding. Our study reveals an orexigenic role of the vagal/NTS pathway in controlling feeding, thereby providing important insights about how gut-brain signaling regulates feeding behavior.
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