Nature Communications· 2014Q1
The short-chain fatty acid acetate reduces appetite via a central homeostatic mechanism
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Dietary acetate, produced by gut bacteria fermenting carbohydrates, crosses the blood-brain barrier and directly suppresses appetite by activating specific hypothalamic neurons.
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