Reduced voluntary activity precedes adult-onset obesity in Nhlh2 knockout mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 387-402

  Coyle, Christopher A ^a   Jing, Enxuan ^a   Hosmer, Trina ^a   Powers, J Bradley ^a   Wade, George ^a   Good, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult onset obesity; Body temperature; Body weight; Food intake; Gender differences; Hyperphagia; Hypothalamus; Locomotion; Nhlh2; Rota Rod; Transcription factor; Voluntary activity

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOSITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0036853701     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00885-5     Document Type: Article

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