Neuroanatomy of melanocortin-4 receptor pathway in the mouse brain

Melanocortin-4 receptors (MC4Rs) are key regulators of energy homeostasis and adipose deposition in the central nervous system. Considering that MC4R expression regions and function-related research mainly focus on the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), little is known about their distribution throughou...

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Main Authors: Wang Kun, Mao Wei, Zhang Xiaoyu, Zhao Yufei, Fan Kuikui, Pan Deng, Liu Haodong, Li Penghui, Hai Rihan, Du Chenguang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-08-01
Series:Open Life Sciences
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/biol-2020-0063