Influence of Diet and Dehydroepiandrosterone on Hypothalamic Monoamine Neurotransmitters in Zucker Rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 337-345

  Svec, Frank ^a,b   Porter, Johnny ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Section of Endocrinology   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetite; Catecholamines; Hypothalamus; Obesity; Zucker rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0000385571     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.1999.11747288     Document Type: Article

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