Acute Leptin Administration Increases Hypothalamic Expression of Prepro-orexin mRNA

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-42

  Gomez Ambrosi J ^a   Fruhbeck G ^b   Martinez J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Leptin; Mice; Prepro orexin

Indexed keywords

MURINAE;

EID: 0006325460     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.1999.11747261     Document Type: Article

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