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University of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterORCID 0000-0003-4625-659XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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Nicole L. Eliason, Kevin Pham, Rohan Varshney…·Amanda Lea Sharpe
This study shows that deleting melanocortin-4 receptors on hypothalamic astrocytes increases body weight, feeding, and central inflammation, independent of neuronal MC4R effects.
Nicole L. Eliason, Lynne Martin, Malcolm James Low, Amanda Lea Sharpe
This study shows that melanotan-II injected into the nucleus accumbens reduces food consumption and appetitive behavior without affecting metabolism or causing aversion.
Ana J. Chucair‐Elliott, Sarah R. Ocañas, David R. Stanford…·Willard M. Freeman
The paper introduces a NuTRAP method to isolate RNA and DNA from specific CNS cell types, revealing cell type-specific epigenetic and transcriptomic differences in microglia and astrocytes.