Stéphane Leon, Vincent Simon, Thomas H Lee, Lukas Steuernagel, Samantha Clark, Nasim Biglari, Thierry Lesté-Lasserre, Nathalie Dupuy, Astrid Cannich, Luigi Bellocchio, Philippe Zizzari, Camille Allard, Delphine Gonzales, Yves Le Feuvre, Emeline Lhuillier, Alexandre Brochard, Jean Charles Nicolas, Jérémie Teillon, Macha Nikolski, Giovanni Marsicano, Xavier Fioramonti, Jens C Brüning, Daniela Cota, Carmelo Quarta
The hypothalamus contains a remarkable diversity of neurons that orchestrate behavioural and metabolic outputs in a highly plastic manner. Neuronal diversity is key to enabling hypothalamic functions and, according to the neuroscience dogma, it is predetermined during embryonic life. Here, by combining lineage tracing of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (Pomc) neurons with single-cell profiling approaches in adult male mice, we uncovered subpopulations of 'Ghost' neurons endowed with atypical molecular and functional identity...
April 24, 2024: Nature Communications