Seasonal regulation of food intake and body weight in the male Siberian hamster: Studies of hypothalamic orexin (hypocretin), neuropeptide Y (NPY) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3255-3264

  Reddy, Akhilesh B ^a   Cronin, Anna S ^a   Ford, Hazel ^a   Ebling, Francis J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body weight; Food intake; Photoperiod; Seasonal reproduction

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OREXIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD INTAKE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRICETINAE; EATING; FASTING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEPTIN; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHODOPUS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS;

EID: 0032824619     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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