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- A small population of neurons that synthesise ghrelin. The role of this population is not known; many neurons in the arcuate nucleus express receptors for ghrelin, but these are thought to respond mainly to blood-borne ghrelin.
The arcuate nucleus also contains a population of specialized ependymal cells, called tanycytes.
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