Growth-Blocking Peptides As Nutrition-Sensitive Signals for Insulin Secretion and Body Size Regulation.

In Drosophila, the fat body, functionally equivalent to the mammalian liver and adipocytes, plays a central role in regulating systemic growth in response to nutrition. The fat body senses intracellular amino acids through Target of Rapamycin (TOR) signaling, and produces an unidentified humoral fac...

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Main Authors: Takashi Koyama, Christen K Mirth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4771208?pdf=render