Anti-cachectic effect of ghrelin in nude mice bearing human melanoma cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 301, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-279

  Hanada, Takeshi ^a,b   Toshinai, Koji ^a   Kajimura, Naoko ^c   Nara Ashizawa, Noriko ^c   Tsukada, Toshihiko ^c   Hayashi, Yujiro ^b   Osuye, Kazuhiro ^b   Kangawa, Kenji ^d   Matsukura, Shigeru ^a   Nakazato, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body weight gain; Cachexia; Food intake; Ghrelin

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CANCER; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STOMACH; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037423693     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)03028-0     Document Type: Article

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