Anticonvulsant action of neuropeptide Y

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 728-729

  Sperk, Günther ^a   Herzog, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; BRAIN LEVEL; CONVULSION; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; DRUG DESIGN; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OBESITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030753691     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0797-728     Document Type: Short Survey

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