NEUROBIOLOGY. For the article “A neurohistochemical blueprint for pain-induced loss of appetite,” by Amy Malick, Moshe Jakubowski, Joel K. Elmquist, Clifford B. Saper, and Rami Burstein, which appeared in number 17, August 14, 2001, of Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (98, 9930–9935), the authors note the following. In revising our paper, we inadvertently omitted the following information. The VMH receives input from nociceptive PBsl neurons that produce the neurotransmitter CCK (23), a peptide that suppresses food intake when injected locally to the VMH.
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We regret the omission of key papers that established the background for our project and apologize to the authors of those papers.