Estrogen increases hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA expression in ovariectomized obese rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 81-84

  Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohtani, Ken Ichi ^a   Kato, Yukio ^b   Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Food intake; Hypothalamus; Neuropeptide Y; Rat

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ANIMAL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERPHAGIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STIMULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OBESITY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0030562069     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12322-3     Document Type: Article

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