Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Center for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Neuron. 2018 Feb 21;97(4):739-741. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.050.
Remarkably few hormones have been identified that stimulate appetite. The recent discovery of asprosin, a hormone that activates AgRP neurons to increase food intake and body weight, begins to fill this gap (Duerrschmid et al., 2017; Romere et al., 2016).
值得注意的是，目前已鉴定出的能够刺激食欲的激素很少。最近发现的一种激素——增食欲素，可激活 AgRP 神经元，增加食物摄入和体重，这在一定程度上填补了这一空白（Duerrschmid 等，2017；Romere 等，2016）。
