Tanycytes: a gateway to the metabolic hypothalamus
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Tanycytes: a gateway to the metabolic hypothalamus
Abstract
The central regulation of energy balance relies on the ability of the brain to promptly and efficiently sense variations of metabolic state. To achieve this, circulating hormonal and metabolic signals have to cross the blood-brain interface, where unusual glial cells named tanycytes have been described to play a key role in this process. Tanycytes are specialised polarised ependymoglial cells that line the floor of the third ventricle and send a single process to contact hypothalamic neurones and blood vessels. Although their role in the regulation of energy balance via the modulation of neuronal activity or their chemosensitivity has been already described, recent studies ascribe a new function to tanycytes in the regulation of energy homeostasis as a result of their capacity to regulate the access of metabolic signals to the hypothalamus. This review discusses the peculiar place of tanycytes within the blood-hypothalamus interface, as well as a striking capacity to remodel their own interface to ensure an adaptive metabolic response to energy imbalances.
Keywords: arcuate nucleus; blood-hypothalamus interface; brain accessibility; brain plasticity; energy balance; metabolic hormones.
© 2014 British Society for Neuroendocrinology.
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