Tonic inhibition of food intake during inactive phase is reversed by the injection of the melanocortin receptor antagonist into the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and central amygdala of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 887, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 460-464

  Kask, Ants ^a,c   Schiöth, Helgi B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Feeding; Hypothalamus; MC4 receptor antagonist, HS014; Melanocortin receptor; Nucleus accumbens; Paraventricular nucleus; Rat

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERMEDIN[11-22][11 (N ACETYLCYSTEINE) 14 [3 (2 NAPHTHYL) DEXTRO ALANINE] 18 CYSTEINE 22 ASPARTIC ACID AMIDE] 11,18 CYCLIC DISULFIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN;

EID: 0034731593     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)03034-1     Document Type: Article

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