From San Francisco, at a meeting of the Endocrine Society
Does the smell of movie-theater popcorn send you dashing for a supersize bucket? Oddly enough, a study of sexual dysfunction in mutated mice may help explain such connections between smell and appetite.
The mice are genetically engineered to lack melanin-concentrating hormone, or MCH, which is made in the brain and is known to stimulate feeding.
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