Postnatal intracerebroventricular exposure to neuropeptide Y causes weight loss in female adult rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 284, Issue 6 53-6, 2003, Pages

  Varma, Amit ^a   He, Jing ^a   Weissfeld, Lisa ^b   Devaskar, Sherin U ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Public Health   (United States)

^c MDCC B 2 375 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Food intake; Hyperinsulinemia; Hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0038515495     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00557.2001     Document Type: Article

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