Assessment of the role of oxytocin receptors in phenylpropanolamine-induced anorexia in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 767-770

  McMahon, L R ^a   Wellman, Paul J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 Adrenergic receptors; Feeding; L 366,948

Indexed keywords

L 366948; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; APPETITE DEPRESSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; EATING; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN;

ANIMALIA; NEXUS;

EID: 0030763698     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00381-4     Document Type: Article

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