Acute and chronic administration of melanin-concentrating hormone enhances food intake and body weight in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1289-1295

  Della Zuana, O ^a   Presse, F ^b   Ortola, C ^b   Nahon, J L ^b   Levens, N ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Melanin concentrating hormone; Messenger RNA; Neuropeptide Y; Neuropeptides; Rodents

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AMPHETAMINE; ANOREXIGENIC AGENT; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; COCAINE; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTENSIN; OREXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EATING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MELANINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTENSIN; PITUITARY HORMONES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036797774     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802079     Document Type: Article

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