Zucker obese rats are insensitive to the CRH-increasing effect of oleoyl-estrone

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 529-534

  Cabot, Cristina ^a,b   Del Mar Grasa, Maria ^a,b   Estruch, Jordi ^b   Fernández López, José Antonio ^a   Remesar, Xavier ^a   Alemany, Marià ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Laboratoris SALVAT SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Appetite; CRH; Energy expenditure; Hypothalamus; Obesity; Oleoyl estrone; Zucker obese rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRONE DERIVATIVE; LIPOSOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; APPETITE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTRONE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIPOSOMES; OBESITY; OLEIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER;

EID: 0031715509     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(98)00050-1     Document Type: Article

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