Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

Fat mass development and obesity have been associated with inappropriate food intake behaviors. Food intake is regulated by homeostatic and non-homeostatic control systems, as well as gut ...

The model proposed here is not intended to explain how obesity occurs. Rather, the intent is to better understand the apparent bias of the energy homeostasis system in favor of weight gain. This ...

April 13, 2007 (Chicago, IL) – New animal data published this week point to a previously unsuspected link between the immune system and the regulation of lipid levels and may help to explain how ...

Your body maintains a biological “set point” for weight, beyond calories, through powerful hormonal and neural feedback loops ...

The induction and maintenance of robust immune tolerance has been the holy grail of immunology for decades. In the absence of robust unresponsiveness of the immune system to self antigens (immune ...

This study shows that G1 lengthening follows critical dynamics that amplifies cell–cell variation. A novel mathematical model ...