Sentences with phrase «hypothalamus respond»

The aim of this study is to characterize how neurons from the mediobasal hypothalamus respond to a signal of protein availability: the amino acid l - leucine.

Using a «reporter gene,» Baum proved that a receptor in the anterior hypothalamus responds differently to the same odor depending on the sex of the ferret.

They may not be aware that the hypothalamus responds not only to the rise and fall of estrogen, but also to the rise and fall of progesterone.

Not exact matches

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

The researchers also found that activation of ESP1 - responding neurons in the region of the brain called the hypothalamus enhanced sexual behavior in female mice, even in the absence of actual ESP1, by using various tools to chemically or optically control neural activities, combined with a process called the TRAP method, which allows them to selectively manipulate neurons responding to a particular stimulus.

In addition to changes in consumption, the area of the brain responsible for certain metabolic processes, the hypothalamus, also responded more to food odors, compared to non-food odors, after alcohol infusion vs. saline.

Newborn mice typically exhibit a surge of leptin when they are eight days old that programs the hypothalamus circuits to respond to fullness cues.

It is able to read and respond directly to the amounts of T4 circulating in the blood, but it also responds to the hypothalamus, which is a section of the brain that releases its own hormone, thyrotropin - releasing hormone (TRH).

It is thought that the hypothalamus may sense low levels of vitamin D and respond by releasing hunger - stimulating hormones and increasing the body weight set point.

«The researchers... found that «cortical control areas» — broad swaths of gray matter that surrounded the hypothalamus — responded quite differently to the infusion of fructose than they did to glucose.

The hypothalamus secretes hormones which stimulate the pituitary (both the hypothalamus and pituitary are in the brain), which stimulate the adrenal glands to manufacture and release hormones that help us to respond to stress (like cortisol and epinephrine.)

The hypothalamus, located in the brain, is often thought of as the «master» gland; it responds to stress by releasing a hormone called corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF).

That is, we hypothesized that EFT would 1) potentiate the regulatory effect of spousal hand holding — particularly in the dlPFC and hypothalamus [3], [8], [13]; 2) weakly potentiate the regulatory effect of stranger hand holding; and 3) leave threat responding during the alone condition relatively unaltered.