Enhanced adrenergic excitation of serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons in genetically obese rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-110

  Ohliger Frerking, Patricia ^a   Horowitz, John M ^a   Horwitz, Barbara A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Phenylephrine; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE; SEROTONIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEEDING; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; AXONS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; OBESITY; PHENYLEPHRINE; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; SEROTONIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0037206633     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00931-X     Document Type: Article

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