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Salk Researchers Find Master Switch in the Brain that Regulates Desire for Food and Ability to Reproduce

Posted on September 02, 2008

September 2, 2008 (Salk Institute) Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, and researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies say it may work the same way in humans. Findings from the study, published ahead of print in the Aug. 31 online edition of Nature Medicine, suggest that variations in the gene that produces this master switch, known as TORC1, could contribute a genetic component to ob...

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