Extracellular hypothalamic serotonin levels after dorsal raphe nuclei stimulation of lean (Fa/Fa) and obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats

Brain Research

Volumn 869, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 6-14

  De Fanti, Brant A ^a   Gavel, David A ^a   Hamilton, Jock S ^a   Horwitz, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Microdialysis; Ventromedial hypothalamus; VMH

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OBESITY; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; SEROTONIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034733883     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02308-8     Document Type: Article

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