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Masako Shimada
Researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Publications - 1
Citations - 1174
Masako Shimada is an academic researcher from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neuropeptide & Melanin-concentrating hormone. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1147 citations.
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Mice lacking melanin-concentrating hormone are hypophagic and lean
Masako Shimada,Nicholas A. Tritos,Bradford B. Lowell,Jeffrey S. Flier,Eleftheria Maratos-Flier +4 more
TL;DR: MCH is a critical regulator of feeding and energy balance which acts downstream of leptin and the melanocortin system, and that deletion of a gene encoding a single orexigenic peptide can result in leanness.