France, Nov. 18 -- Project Id: 76947
Description: Grant agreement ID: 810331
Status
Ongoing project
Start date
1 March 2019
End date
28 February 2025
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
Overall budget:
€ 9 866 250
EU contribution
€ 9 866 250
Objective
The survival of an organism depends on energy homeostasis, involving the control of neuroendocrine functions that integrate metabolic feedback and adapt the response of the organism to physiological demands. Tanycytes, specialized glial cells lining the floor of the third ventricle in the median eminence of the hypothalamus, act as linchpins of these processes, dynamically controlling the secretion of neuropeptides by hypothalamic neurons into the pituitary portal circulatio...