Leptin regulates growth hormone-releasing factor, somatostatin, and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone but not neuropeptide Y release in rat hypothalamus in vivo: Relation with growth hormone secretion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 6265-6271

  Watanobe, Hajime ^a   Habu, Satoshi ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Growth hormone; Growth hormone releasing factor; Leptin; Median eminence; Neuropeptide Y; Push pull perfusion; Somatostatin; melanocyte stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; LEPTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG INFUSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INGESTION; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAT;

EID: 0037101623     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-14-06265.2002     Document Type: Article

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