Leptin Action on GABAergic Neurons Prevents Obesity and Reduces Inhibitory Tone to POMC Neurons

by Vong, Linh, Ye, Chianping, Yang, Zongfang, Choi, Brian, Chua, Streamson, Lowell, Bradford B.
Published 2011

Arcuate hypothalamic AgRP and putative POMC neurons show opposite changes in spiking across multiple timescales

by Mandelblat-Cerf, Yael, Ramesh, Rohan N, Burgess, Christian R, Patella, Paola, Yang, Zongfang, Lowell, Bradford B, Andermann, Mark L
Published in eLife (2015)

Fasting Activation of AgRP Neurons Requires NMDA Receptors and Involves Spinogenesis and Increased Excitatory Tone

by Liu, Tiemin, Kong, Dong, Shah, Bhavik P., Ye, Chianping, Koda, Shuichi, Saunders, Arpiar, Ding, Jun B., Yang, Zongfang, Sabatini, Bernardo L., Lowell, Bradford B.
Published 2012

MC4R-expressing glutamatergic neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus regulate feeding and are synaptically connected to the parabrachial nucleus

by Shah, Bhavik P., Vong, Linh, Olson, David P., Koda, Shuichi, Krashes, Michael J., Ye, Chianping, Yang, Zongfang, Fuller, Patrick M., Elmquist, Joel K., Lowell, Bradford B.
Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014)

A Postsynaptic AMPK→p21-Activated Kinase Pathway Drives Fasting-Induced Synaptic Plasticity in AgRP Neurons

by Kong, Dong, Dagon, Yossi, Campbell, John N., Guo, Yikun, Yang, Zongfang, Yi, Xinchi, Aryal, Pratik, Wellenstein, Kerry, Kahn, Barbara B., Sabatini, Bernardo L., Lowell, Bradford B.
Published in Neuron (2016)

γδT cells and adipocyte IL-17RC control fat innervation and thermogenesis

by Hu, Bo, Jin, Chengcheng, Zeng, Xing, Resch, Jon M., Jedrychowski, Mark P., Yang, Zongfang, Desai, Bhavna N., Banks, Alexander S., Lowell, Bradford B., Mathis, Diane, Spiegelman, Bruce M.
Published in Nature (2020)

A rapidly-acting glutamatergic ARC→PVH satiety circuit postsynaptically regulated by α-MSH

by Fenselau, Henning, Campbell, John N., Verstegen, Anne M.J., Madara, Joseph C., Xu, Jie, Shah, Bhavik P., Resch, Jon M., Yang, Zongfang, Mandelblat-Cerf, Yael, Livneh, Yoav, Lowell, Bradford B.
Published in Nat Neurosci (2016)

Synaptic Glutamate Release by Ventromedial Hypothalamic (VMH) Neurons Is Part of the Neurocircuitry that Prevents Hypoglycemia

by Tong, Qingchun, Ye, ChianPing, McCrimmon, Rory J., Dhillon, Harveen, Choi, Brian, Kramer, Melissa D., Yu, Jia, Yang, Zongfang, Christiansen, Lauryn M., Lee, Charlotte E., Choi, Cheol Soo, Zigman, Jeffrey M., Shulman, Gerald I., Sherwin, Robert S., Elmquist, Joel K., Lowell, Bradford B.
Published 2007