{"id":11952,"date":"2014-08-02T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:59","slug":"brain-cells-can-suppress-appetite-study-in-mice-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/brain-cells-can-suppress-appetite-study-in-mice-shows","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells can suppress appetite, study in mice shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-name\">By Smitha Mundasad<\/span><\/span> \u2014 BBC News<br \/>\n<br \/> Scientists have discovered a central hub of brain cells that may put the brakes on a desire to eat, a study in mice shows.<br \/> And switching on these neurons can stop feeding immediately, according to the Nature Neurosciences report.<br \/> Researchers say the findings may one day contribute to therapies for obesity and anorexia.<br \/> Experts say this sheds light on the many complex nerve circuits involved in appetite control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-28486092\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Smitha Mundasad \u2014 BBC News Scientists have discovered a central hub of brain cells that may put the brakes on a desire to eat, a study in mice shows. And switching on these neurons can stop feeding immediately, according to the Nature Neurosciences report. Researchers say the findings may one day contribute to therapies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64933,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions\/64933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}