Genetic 'parts' list now available for hypothalamus -- key part of the mammalian brain
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 16:11
in Biology & Nature
Researchers in the U.S. and Japan have generated the first comprehensive genetic "parts" list of a mouse hypothalamus, an enigmatic region of the brain -- roughly cherry-sized, in humans -- that controls hunger, thirst, fatigue, body temperature, wake-sleep cycles and links the central nervous system to control of hormone levels.