Metergoline potentiates natural feeding and antagonizes the anorectic action of medial hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1023-1028

  Currie, Paul J ^a,b   Coscina, Donald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxytryptamine; Food intake; Metergoline; Norepinephrine; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

METERGOLINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 0029968883     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02097-7     Document Type: Article

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