Serotoninergic block in the ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus improves food intake in anorectic tumor bearing rats

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 398, Issue , 1996, Pages 551-553

  Laviano, A ^a   Cangiano, C ^a   Preziosa, I ^a   Meguid, M M ^b   Muscaritoli, M ^a   Conversano, L ^a   Cascino, A ^a   Torelli, G F ^a   Cherubini, S ^a   Rossi Fanelli, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIANSERIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISCHER 344 RAT; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIANSERIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030341830     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_88     Document Type: Article

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