Hyperphagia in cold-exposed rats is accompanied by decreased plasma leptin but unchanged hypothalamic NPY

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 1 43-1, 1998, Pages

  Bing, Chen ^b   Frankish, Helen M ^b   Pickavance, Lucy ^b   Wang, Qiong ^b   Hopkins, David F C ^b   Stock, Michael J ^b   Williams, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Energy balance; Food intake; Hypothalamus; Neuropeptide Y; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; STARVATION; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 0031939269     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.1.r62     Document Type: Article

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