Obesity is a global health problem of the first order. In my thesis, I aimed to elucidate the role of histone deacetylase 5 in controlling thermogenesis and body weight. My studies in male HDAC5-KO mice revealed an impaired thermogenic PVH-SNS-BAT/eWAT axis that induced mature-onset obesity under non-obesogenic conditions. By developing pipelines for the sorting of specific cellular subpopulations in the CNS, I unraveled chronic hyperactivation of dopaminergic neurons in the dorsomedial arcuate nucleus as likely driver for the obesity phenotype of HDAC5-KO males
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Obesity is a global health problem of the first order. In my thesis, I aimed to elucidate the role of histone deacetylase 5 in controlling thermogenesis and body weight. My studies in male HDAC5-KO mice revealed an impaired thermogenic PVH-SNS-BAT/eWAT axis that induced mature-onset obesity under non-obesogenic conditions. By developing pipelines for the sorting of specific cellular subpopulations in the CNS, I unraveled chronic hyperactivation of dopaminergic neurons in the dorsomedial arcuate...
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