Microbial signals to the brain control weight

Mirko Trajkovski () and Claes B. Wollheim ()
Additional contact information
Mirko Trajkovski: Centre Médical Universitaire, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Claes B. Wollheim: Centre Médical Universitaire, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

Nature, 2016, vol. 534, issue 7606, 185-187

Abstract: The bacteria that inhabit the rodent gut promote insulin secretion and food intake by activating the parasympathetic nervous system — a hitherto unknown mode of action for this multifaceted microbiota. See Article p.213

Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/534185a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:534:y:2016:i:7606:d:10.1038_534185a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/534185a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().