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Query: UMLS:C0154251 (lipid disorder)
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Obesity as a common disorder of lipid metabolism might be caused by defective hypothalamic control as demonstrated by ventromedial lesions or the effect of cholecystokinin application. The hypothalamic proopiomelanocorticotropin is the precursor of hormonal fragments affecting fat mobilisation, the endocrine pancreas and gastrointestinal functions.
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PMID:Hypothalamic control of lipid metabolism. 298 21

Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a progressive neurological disorder of lipid metabolism. The Balb/C npc1 mutant strain is a genetically authentic murine model of NPC, which reproduce the clinical and histologic features of human NP-C. In the present study, we show that cholecystokinin (CCK)-immunoreactive fibers in the thalamic VPL nuclei, which are densely distributed in controls, degenerate in NPC mice. This degeneration is associated with the appearance of CCK-immunoreactive axonal spheroids containing characteristic intracellular inclusions of NP-C. These observations provide supportive evidence of the occurrence of dying-back axonopathy of neurons in the dorsal column nuclei in this mouse model.
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PMID:Degeneration of cholecystokinin-immunoreactive afferents to the VPL thalamus in a mouse model of Niemann-Pick disease type C. 1535 35