Ghrelin Causes Hyperphagia and Obesity in Rats

Diabetes

Volumn 50, Issue 7-12, 2001, Pages 2540-2547

  Wren, Alison M ^a   Small, Caroline J ^a   Abbott, Caroline R ^a   Dhillo, Waljit S ^a   Seal, Leighton J ^a   Cohen, Mark A ^a   Batterham, Rachel L ^a   Taheri, Shahrad ^a   Stanley, Sarah A ^a   Ghatei, Mohammad A ^a   Bloom, Stephen Robert ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; HORMONE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EATING; FASTING; HORMONES; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; OBESITY; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SATIETY RESPONSE;

EID: 0035514596     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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