article_snippet.sent: On the left, images of normal hypothalamus POMC cells from a developing mouse.
article_snippet.sent: The new findings show in animals that the same thing happens when certain genetic triggers inside the POMC cells aren't working.
article_snippet.sent: The latest research show in animals that the same thing happens when certain genetic triggers inside the POMC cells aren't working.
article_snippet.sent: In the new PNAS paper, The latest research show in animals that the same thing happens when certain genetic triggers inside the POMC cells aren't working report that the transcription factor Islet 1, encoded by the Isl1 gene, plays this important role for POMC.
article_snippet.sent: When The latest research show in animals that the same thing happens when certain genetic triggers inside the POMC cells aren't working blocked cells of the hypothalamus from making Islet 1 halfway through pregnancy, the fetal mice failed to develop any POMC cells. '
highlights_snippet.sent: This also happens when genes inside the POMC cells aren't working .