Nausea is a bit of a catchall term describing that unpleasant, sick feeling that can hit us as a result of anything from pregnancy or migraine, to eating spoiled food or undergoing chemotherapy. But ...

Most of us will experience nausea at some point, but the sensation remains poorly understood at the molecular and cellular level. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have now identified and ...

This report contains a gene expression summary of the area postrema (AP), derived from the "Allen Brain Atlas":http://www.brain-map.org/welcome.do;jsessionid ...

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A hormone that reverses obesity in mice appears to work by signaling to a brain region involved in metabolism and appetite regulation, the same area targeted by the popular GLP-1 drugs. The finding, ...

Neurons (blue) in a part of the brain called the area postrema, seen here, express a variety of genes, including receptors for the immune system molecule IL-6 (white).