Starvation reduces norepinephrine activities in both hypothalamus and heart in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 706, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 351-354

  Gotoh, Minehiro ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^b   Tajima, Toshihisa ^b   Ikari, Hiroyuki ^b   Hirooka, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart; Hypothalamus; Norepinephrine; Rat; Starvation; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLETHYLENE GLYCOL; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEART; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030039437     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01363-6     Document Type: Article

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