Diet Restriction Increases Enkephalin- and Dynorphin-like Immunoreactivity in Rat Brain and Attenuates Long-term Retention of Passive Avoidance

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-55

  Shoham, Shai ^a   Marcus, Esther Lee ^a   Avraham, Yosefa ^b   Berry, Elliot M ^b  

^a HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anorexia; Diet restriction; Dynorphin; Enkephalin; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001824404     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2000.11747302     Document Type: Article

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