How to pronounce“neuropod”in English

Neuropod cells are neurons, nerve cells, that reside in our gut and that detect things like fatty acids, amino acids, and some neuropod cells sense sugar.

Neuropod cells were discovered by Diego Bohorquez's lab at Duke University.

These neuropod cells also trigger activation of dopamine pathways within the mesolimbic reward pathway.

These neuropod cells, as I mentioned, are activated by sugar, fatty acids, or amino acids, but have a particularly strong activation to sugars.

The neuropod cells signal by way of a particular branch of the vagus through that nodose ganglion that we talked about before

those neuropod cells, are actually capable of distinguishing between real sugars and artificial sweeteners.

coming from the neuropod cells in our gut that are registering the presence of sugar or glucose increasing foods in our gut