Central injection in rats of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog: Effects on food intake and brain Fos

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 78, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 89-94

  Brown, Katherine S ^a   Gentry, Rachel M ^a   Rowland, Neil E ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Fos immunocytochemistry; Lateral and fourth cerebral ventricles; Neuropeptide Y; Paraventricular nucleus; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

TERMINALIS;

EID: 0032583131     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(98)00127-X     Document Type: Article

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