From lesions to leptin: Hypothalamic control of food intake and body weight

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-232

  Elmquist, Joel K ^a   Elias, Carol F ^a   Saper, Clifford B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MELANOCORTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR; RELEASING FACTOR; STAT1 PROTEIN; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SATIETY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0033082380     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81084-3     Document Type: Review

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