Obesity-inducing amygdala lesions: Examination of anterograde degeneration and retrograde transport

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 284, Issue 4 53-4, 2003, Pages

  King, Bruce M ^a   Cook, Jack T ^a   Rossiter, Kirk N ^a   Rollins, Bethany L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Nucleus accumbens; Stria terminalis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; SILVER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEEDING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0037385813     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00249.2002     Document Type: Article

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