Pass the salt: Mapping the neurons that drive salt cravings

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) A team of scientists in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, have shed new light on the process. In research published today in the journal Neuron, a team of scientists working in the lab of Bradford Lowell, M.D., Ph.D., identified the sub-population of neurons that respond to the body's sodium deficiency and mapped the brain circuitry underlying the drive to consume salt.
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