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Orexin-A projections to the caudal medulla and orexin-induced c-Fos expression, food intake, and autonomic functionHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
J Comp Neurol 485:127-42. 2005..The results confirm that hypothalamomedullary orexin projections are involved in a variety of physiological functions, including ingestive behavior and sympathetic outflow...
Neurobiology of exerciseRod K Dishman
Department of Exercise Science, The University of Georgia, Ramsey Center, 330 River Road, Athens, GA 30602 6554, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:345-56. 2006....
Brainstem mechanisms integrating gut-derived satiety signals and descending forebrain information in the control of meal sizeHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Physiol Behav 89:517-24. 2006..Longer-term downstream effects of ERK activation might involve CREB-mediated gene transcription known to produce plasticity changes in neurocircuitry that could determine inter-meal intervals and the size of future meals...
Interactions between the "cognitive" and "metabolic" brain in the control of food intakeHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Physiol Behav 91:486-98. 2007....
Neurobiology of nutrition and obesityChristopher D Morrison
Neurosignaling Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Nutr Rev 65:517-34. 2007....
Modulation of taste responsiveness and food preference by obesity and weight lossHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Electronic address
Physiol Behav 107:527-32. 2012..Better understanding would be helpful in designing strategies to promote healthier eating and prevention of obesity and the accompanying chronic disease risks...
Food reward in the obese and after weight loss induced by calorie restriction and bariatric surgeryHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1264:36-48. 2012....
Neural and metabolic regulation of macronutrient intake and selectionHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Proc Nutr Soc 71:390-400. 2012..A better understanding of these nutrient-specific neural processes could help design drugs and behavioural strategies that promote healthier eating...
Metabolic and hedonic drives in the neural control of appetite: who is the boss?Hans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 21:888-96. 2011....
Anatomy and function of sensory hepatic nervesHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70808, USA
Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 280:827-35. 2004..Great caution is therefore necessary when interpreting functional outcomes of so-called specific hepatic denervation studies...
Neural control of appetite: cross-talk between homeostatic and non-homeostatic systemsHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Appetite 43:315-7. 2004..To find new behavioral and pharmacological treatments of obesity, it will be important to identify the specific pathways that link these externally driven processes with the homeostatic regulatory system...
Homeostatic and non-homeostatic pathways involved in the control of food intake and energy balanceHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:197S-200S. 2006....
Orexin inputs to caudal raphé neurons involved in thermal, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal regulationHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Histochem Cell Biol 123:147-56. 2005....
Paying the price for eating ice cream: is excessive GLP-1 signaling in the brain the culprit?Hans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Endocrinology 149:4765-7. 2008
The vagus nerve, food intake and obesityHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Regul Pept 149:15-25. 2008....
Vagal-enteric interface: vagal activation-induced expression of c-Fos and p-CREB in neurons of the upper gastrointestinal tract and pancreasH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Anat Rec 262:29-40. 2001..They represent the first step in the identification of function-specific units of parasympathetic vagal outflow...
Vagal and hormonal gut-brain communication: from satiation to satisfactionH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Neurogastroenterol Motil 20:64-72. 2008....
The brain, appetite, and obesityHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 59:55-92. 2008..The predisposition to develop obesity can theoretically result from any pathological malfunction or lack of adaptation to changing environments of this highly complex system...
Mind versus metabolism in the control of food intake and energy balanceHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Physiol Behav 81:781-93. 2004..While many projections from the hypothalamus contain the various "feeding peptides," the neurochemistry of projections to the hypothalamus has not been well characterized...
Neuroanatomy of extrinsic afferents supplying the gastrointestinal tractH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Neurogastroenterol Motil 16:28-33. 2004..Whether functional changes have anatomical correlates is not known, but it is likely that they underlie diseases involving visceral hypersensitivity...
Functional and chemical anatomy of the afferent vagal systemH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70808, USA
Auton Neurosci 85:1-17. 2000..Furthermore, these functions are in line with a general defensive character ascribed to the vagal afferent, paraventricular system in lower vertebrates...
Food-related gastrointestinal signals activate caudal brainstem neurons expressing both NMDA and AMPA receptorsH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Brain Res 915:143-54. 2001..This may indicate a high degree of convergence among sensory signals, or alternatively, the presence of other transmission systems such as peptides referring sensory specificity to second order neurons...
The lateral hypothalamus as integrator of metabolic and environmental needs: from electrical self-stimulation to opto-geneticsHans Rudi Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Physiol Behav 104:29-39. 2011..Exciting new techniques allowing selective stimulation or inhibition of specific neuronal phenotypes will greatly facilitate the functional mapping of both input and output pathways...
Multiple neural systems controlling food intake and body weightHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:393-428. 2002....
Video-based spatio-temporal maps for analysis of gastric motility in vitro: effects of vagal stimulation in guinea-pigsH R Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70808, USA
Neurogastroenterol Motil 14:677-88. 2002....
"Liking" and "wanting" of sweet and oily food stimuli as affected by high-fat diet-induced obesity, weight loss, leptin, and genetic predispositionAndrew C Shin
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 301:R1267-80. 2011....
Food reward, hyperphagia, and obesityHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 300:R1266-77. 2011....
Neural systems controlling food intake and energy balance in the modern worldHans Rudolf Berthoud
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 6:615-20. 2003..Thus, this review is intended to bridge this apparent neural dichotomy and highlight possible ways of interactions between these homeostatic and nonhomeostatic systems...
Obesity surgery and gut-brain communicationHans Rudolf Berthoud
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Physiol Behav 105:106-19. 2011....
Melanin concentrating hormone innervation of caudal brainstem areas involved in gastrointestinal functions and energy balanceH Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Neuroscience 135:611-25. 2005..Projections to ventral medullary sites may play a role in the inhibitory effect of melanin-concentrating hormone on energy expenditure...
Orexin signaling in the ventral tegmental area is required for high-fat appetite induced by opioid stimulation of the nucleus accumbensHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
J Neurosci 27:11075-82. 2007....
Peptides that regulate food intake: appetite-inducing accumbens manipulation activates hypothalamic orexin neurons and inhibits POMC neuronsHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 284:R1436-44. 2003..However, activation of many neurons not expressing these peptides suggests that additional peptides/transmitters in the lateral hypothalamus and accumbens projections to other brain areas might also be involved...
Neurochemical phenotype of hypothalamic neurons showing Fos expression 23 h after intracranial AgRPHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 282:R1773-81. 2002..Activation of CART neurons in the ARC (which likely coexpress proopiomelanocortin) could indicate attempts to activate counterregulatory decreases in food intake...
Inactivation of PKCtheta leads to increased susceptibility to obesity and dietary insulin resistance in miceZhanguo Gao
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 292:E84-91. 2007..This study suggests that loss of PKCtheta reduces energy expenditure and increases the risk of dietary obesity and insulin resistance in mice...
Vanilloid receptor (VR1) expression in vagal afferent neurons innervating the gastrointestinal tractLaurel M Patterson
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Cell Tissue Res 311:277-87. 2003....
Brain stem melanocortinergic modulation of meal size and identification of hypothalamic POMC projectionsHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, 6400 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 289:R247-58. 2005....
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 signaling pathway in solitary nucleus mediates cholecystokinin-induced suppression of food intake in ratsGregory M Sutton
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
J Neurosci 24:10240-7. 2004....
Behavioral analysis of anorexia produced by hindbrain injections of AMPA receptor antagonist NBQX in ratsHuiyuan Zheng
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 282:R147-55. 2002..More localized injections and response measures will be necessary...
Eating for pleasure or caloriesHuiyuan Zheng
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Curr Opin Pharmacol 7:607-12. 2007..On the other hand, brain areas involved in reward, cognition, and executive control can override metabolic regulation by talking to the hypothalamus...
Melanocortinergic modulation of cholecystokinin-induced suppression of feeding through extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling in rat solitary nucleusGregory M Sutton
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Endocrinology 146:3739-47. 2005..The cAMP-->ERK-->CREB cascade may thus constitute a molecular integrator for converging satiety signals from the gut and adiposity signals from the hypothalamus in the control of meal size and food intake...
Vagal afferents innervating the gastrointestinal tract and CCKA-receptor immunoreactivityLaurel M Patterson
Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA
Anat Rec 266:10-20. 2002....
Orexins in rat dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus potently stimulate gastric motor functionZbigniew K Krowicki
Department of Pharmacology and Center of Excellence for Neuroscience, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans 70112, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 283:G465-72. 2002..These data are consistent with the idea that orexin A stimulates vagal excitatory motor neurons. These are the first data to suggest that orexins in the DMN have potent and long-lasting effects to increase gastric contractility...
Monoclonal antibody antagonists of hypothalamic FGFR1 cause potent but reversible hypophagia and weight loss in rodents and monkeysHaijun D Sun
ImClone Systems Inc, 180 Varick St, New York, NY 10014, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 292:E964-76. 2007..Our data suggest that FGF signaling through FGFR1c may play a physiological role in hypothalamic feeding circuit and that blocking it leads to hypophagia and weight loss...
Gastric distension induces c-Fos in medullary GLP-1/2-containing neuronsNiels Vrang
Rheoscience, 2610 Rødovre, Denmark
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 285:R470-8. 2003..The results support the view that the medullary GLP system is involved in appetite control and is activated by stimuli within the behavioral continuum, ranging from satiety to nausea...
Presynaptic melanocortin-4 receptors on vagal afferent fibers modulate the excitability of rat nucleus tractus solitarius neuronsShuxia Wan
Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immune Related Diseases, Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China
J Neurosci 28:4957-66. 2008....
Stimulation of the vagus nerve attenuates macrophage activation by activating the Jak2-STAT3 signaling pathwayWouter J de Jonge
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nat Immunol 6:844-51. 2005..We conclude that the vagal anti-inflammatory pathway acts by alpha7 subunit-mediated Jak2-STAT3 activation...
Neurochemical control and reconfiguration of the medullary network controlling different oromotor behaviorsHans-Rudolf Berthoud
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 285:R19-20. 2003
Research Grants
- Non-Homeostatic Neural Controls of Food IntakeHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2007..framework of how the different psychological processes involved in food reward are neurologically organized, and (3) the development of pharmacological and behavioral therapeutic tools to counteract "common" obesity in a world of plenty ..
- AUTONOMIC REGULATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND METABOLISMHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Neural mechanisms controlling food intake and body weight after bariatric surgeryHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2010..This will result in more optimal surgical procedures, behavioral tips helping patients to cope with different eating habits, and development of new drugs. ..
- FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE VAGAL-ENTERIC INTERFACEHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- AUTONOMIC REGULATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND METABOLISMHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- Non-Homeostatic Neural Controls of Food IntakeHans Rudolf Berthoud; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..
