The neuro-immune interactions that integrate host metabolism in health and disease are unclear. A new study by Valdearcos et al. (2017) describes how sensing of high-fat diet by microglia, brain's resident innate immune cells, recruits additional bone-marrow-derived myeloid cells into the hypothalamus to produce inflammation and cause weight gain.
Keywords: Inflammation; NF-κB; hypothalamus; microglia; obesity.
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