Role of the central melanocortin system in cachexia

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1432-1438

  Marks, Daniel L ^a   Ling, Nicholas ^a   Cone, Roger D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CACHEXIA; CARCINOMA, LEWIS LUNG; EATING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0035866377     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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