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Enriching Stress Research

Author(s) -

Laurent Kappeler,

Michael J. Meaney

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.06.025

Subject(s) - biology , leptin , hypothalamus , neurotrophic factors , sympathetic nervous system , environmental enrichment , endocrinology , brain derived neurotrophic factor , central nervous system , nervous system , neuroscience , medicine , obesity , genetics , blood pressure , receptor

Enriched environments are known to boost physical and mental health in rodents and humans. Now, Cao et al. (2010) report that environmental enrichment also suppresses tumor growth in mice by stimulating the hypothalamus to produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor that acts on the sympathetic nervous system to reduce leptin production in white fat tissue.

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