{"id":108408,"date":"2020-06-09T04:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/appetite-can-be-increased"},"modified":"2020-06-09T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:41:06","slug":"appetite-can-be-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/appetite-can-be-increased","title":{"rendered":"Appetite can be increased by cells in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/appetite-can-be-increased.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has previously been discovered that tanycytes\u2014cells found in part of the brain that controls <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/energy+levels\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_top\">energy levels <\/a>\u2014detect nutrients in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/food\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_top\">food<\/a> and tell the brain directly about the food we have eaten.<\/p>\n<p>Tanycytes do this by responding to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/amino+acids\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_top\">amino acids<\/a> found in foods, via the same receptors that sense the flavor of amino acids (\u201cumami\u201d taste), which are found in the taste buds of the tongue.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper \u2018Hypothalamic tanycytes generate acute hyperphagia through activation of the arcuate neuronal network.\u2019 published today, the 8th June, in the journal <i>PNAS<\/i>, researchers from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, explain how tanycytes can increase appetite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has previously been discovered that tanycytes\u2014cells found in part of the brain that controls energy levels \u2014detect nutrients in food and tell the brain directly about the food we have eaten. Tanycytes do this by responding to amino acids found in foods, via the same receptors that sense the flavor of amino acids (\u201cumami\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108415,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108408\/revisions\/108415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}