Intracerebroventricular injection of agouti-related protein attenuates the anorexigenic effect of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in neonatal chicks

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 131-134

  Tachibana, Tetsuya ^a   Sugahara, Kunio ^b   Ohgushi, Atsushi ^c   Ando, Ryuichi ^c   Kawakami, Shin Ichi ^d   Yoshimatsu, Takao ^c   Furuse, Mitsuhiro ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agouti related protein; Broiler chick; Chicken melanocortin receptor 4; Feeding; Layertype chick; melanocyte stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN (86 132); AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN (86-132); ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHICKEN; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOREXIA; CHICKENS; EATING; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035827590     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01827-4     Document Type: Article

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