Neuronal activation and corticotropin-releasing hormone expression in the brain of obese (fa/fa) and lean (fa/?) Zucker rats in response to refeeding

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1013-1029

  Timofeeva, Elena ^a   Picard, Frédéric ^a   Duclos, Martine ^b   Deshaies, Yves ^a   Richard, Denis ^a,c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brainstem; c fos; Feeding; Lateral hypothalamic area; Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REFEEDING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

EID: 0036455162     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01942.x     Document Type: Article

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