Chronic food restriction and acute food deprivation decrease mRNA levels of opioid peptides in arcuate nucleus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 5 39-5, 1996, Pages

  Kim, Eun Mee ^b   Welch, Catherine C ^b   Grace, Martha K ^b   Billington, Charles J ^b   Levine, Allen S ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

food deprived rats; food restricted rats; opioid gene expression; proDynorphin; proEnkephalin; proOpiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OPIATE PEPTIDE; PRODYNORPHIN; PROENKEPHALIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030001086     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.270.5.r1019     Document Type: Article

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