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Food odour recognition adjusts systemic metabolism to nutrient availability

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Food odour recognition is involved in the food anticipatory response. A study in Nature Metabolism describes how the olfactory system differentially regulates metabolic adaptations depending on energy availability. These effects are mediated by a brain circuit involving the melanocortin system that controls systemic lipid utilization via the sympathetic nervous system.

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Fig. 1: The effects of food odour recognition.

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  1. University of Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Laboratory of Development and Plasticity of the Neuroendocrine Brain, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, UMR-S 1172, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Lille, France

    Vincent Prevot

  2. Department of Physiology, CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Ruben Nogueiras

  3. CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Ruben Nogueiras

  4. Galician Agency of Innovation (GAIN), Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Prevot, V., Nogueiras, R. Food odour recognition adjusts systemic metabolism to nutrient availability. Nat Rev Endocrinol 19, 130–131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-022-00801-4

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