TSPO: an emerging role in appetite for a therapeutically promising biomarker
There is accumulating evidence that an obesogenic Western diet causes neuroinflammatory damage to the brain, which then promotes further appetitive behaviour. Neuroinflammation has been extensively studied by analysing the translocator protein of 18 kDa (TSPO), a protein that is upregulated in the i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2021-08-01
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Series: | Open Biology |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.210173 |