Session Information
2011 Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting
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Hypothalamic Development
Track
:
Track 2 — Neuroscience
Program Code:
203
Date:
Monday, October 3, 2011
Time:
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
EST
SPEAKER
(S):
Lori Zeltser, Columbia University
Richard Simerly, Unversity of Southern California
Linda Rinaman, Pittsburgh University
Description
Learning Objectives:
- Explain that experimental manipulations of the same signaling pathway in young vs. mature animals produce physiological outcomes with different degrees of severity.
- Discuss how the postnatal environment can exert persistent effects on energy homeostasis during critical periods of development.
- Explain the direct and relayed neural circuits that deliver gastrointestinal sensory signals to the hypothalamus, and appreciate the postnatal development of these pathways in rats.
- Describe how anatomical maturation of hindbrain-hypothalamic neural circuits contributes to the postnatal emergence of mature physiological and behavioral responses to gastrointestinal and other visceral stimuli that affect food intake.
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