clemence Blouet

CountryUnited Kingdom

Position Principal Investigator/Group Leader

University/Organisation University of Cambridge

Domain Internal States and Homeostasis

Sub domains Feeding, drinking, foraging and other behaviours

Lab description

Specialised cells in the brain monitor the body's nutritional and metabolic status and constantly check that the right amount and type of nutrients are available to maintain physiological functions.

When these cells work properly, appetite is matched to homeostatic needs, and weight maintained to a stable set point,

Obesity develops when these cells stop working properly, increasing the risk for various metabolic dysfunctions, cancer and heart disease. There is an urgent need to better understand the biology of appetite control in order to design better anti-obesity treatments and curb the obesity epidemic.

We focus our efforts on the characterisation of how nutrients and metabolic signals are detected by the brain to mai

Lab URLhttps://www.blouetlab.org/