About the Authors

Michael M. Scott

Affiliations Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Mario Perello

Current address: Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Multidisciplinary Institute of Cell Biology, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jen-Chieh Chuang

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Ichiro Sakata

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Laurent Gautron

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Charlotte E. Lee

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Danielle Lauzon

Affiliation Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joel K. Elmquist

Contributed equally to this work with: Joel K. Elmquist, Jeffrey M. Zigman

joel.elmquist@utsouthwestern.edu (JKE); jeffrey.zigman@utsouthwestern.edu (JMZ)

Affiliations Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Zigman

Contributed equally to this work with: Joel K. Elmquist, Jeffrey M. Zigman

joel.elmquist@utsouthwestern.edu (JKE); jeffrey.zigman@utsouthwestern.edu (JMZ)

Affiliations Division of Hypothalamic Research, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS MP JZ JE. Performed the experiments: MS MP J-CC IS LG CL DL. Analyzed the data: MS MP JZ JE. Wrote the paper: MS MP JZ JE.