“It is extraordinary to discover that bacterial fragments act directly on a brain center as strategic as the hypothalamus, which is known to manage vital functions such as body temperature, reproduction, hunger and thirst,” comments Pierre-Marie Lledo, CNRS scientist and Head of the Institut Pasteur’s Perception and Memory Unit.”
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Ilana Gabanyi et al, Bacterial sensing via neuronal Nod2 regulates appetite and body temperature, Science (2022). DOI: 10.1126/science.abj3986