Functional activation of crh neurons and expression of the genes encoding crh and its receptors in food-deprived lean (Fa/?) and Obese (fa/fa) zucker rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 327-340

  Timofeeva, Elena ^a   Richard, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; C fos; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Food deprivation; Glucose; Obesity; Paraventricular nucleus; Ventromedial nucleus; Zucker rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; OBESITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0030807780     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127256     Document Type: Article

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