Effects of leptin on corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) synthesis and CRF neuron activation in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus of obese (ob/ob) mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1524-1532

  Huang, Qingling ^a   Rivest, Robert ^a   Richard, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN C FOS; R MULEPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ONCOGENE C FOS; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STARVATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0031791643     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.4.5889     Document Type: Article

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