Effects of leptin on fasting-induced inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase mRNA in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of rats

Brain Research

Volumn 846, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-235

  Isse, Toyohi ^a   Ueta, Yoichi ^a   Serino, Ryota ^a   Noguchi, Jun ^a   Yamamoto, Yukiyo ^a   Nomura, Masayoshi ^a   Shibuya, Izumi ^a   Lightman, Stafford L ^b   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Fasting; In situ hybridization histochemistry; Leptin; Nitric oxide synthase; Thyrotropin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTIRELIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DNA PROBES; FASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LEPTIN; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032699905     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02065-X     Document Type: Article

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