Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to weight loss in mice following diet restriction, activity or separation stress: Effects of tyrosine

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 327-335

  Avraham, Yosefa ^a   Hao, Shuzhen ^a   Mendelson, Susan ^a   Berry, Elliot M ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activity; Diet restriction; Glucocorticoids; HPA; Separation; Tyrosine weight loss

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIET RESTRICTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE METABOLISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION ANXIETY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; DIET, REDUCING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOREPINEPHRINE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STARVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TYROSINE; WEIGHT LOSS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036796418     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415021000033794     Document Type: Article

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