Chronic administration of leptin into the lateral ventricle induces sexual maturation in severely food-restricted female rats

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 627-633

  Gruaz, Nadine M ^a   Lalaoui, Meriem ^a   Pierroz, Dominique D ^a   Englaro, Piera ^b   Sizonenko, Pierre C ^a   Blum, Werner F ^b   Aubert, Michel L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b LILLY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; LEPTIN; MICE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0031854256     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.1998.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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