Commissural nucleus of the solitary tract lesions reduce food intake and body weight gain in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 740, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 102-108

  Menani, Jose Vanderlei ^a,b   Colombari, Eduardo ^a   Talman, William T ^a   Johnson, Alan Kim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

food ingestion; glucose; hindbrain; insulin; satiety; water intake

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; EATING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030592752     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00850-5     Document Type: Article

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