Hypothalamic levels of NPY, MCH, and prepro-orexin mRNA during pregnancy and lactation in the rat: Role of prolactin

FASEB Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1392-1400

  Garcia M C ^a   Lopez M ^a   Gualillo, O ^a   Seoane, L M ^a   Dieguez C ^a   Señarís, Rosa Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gestation; Hypothalamus; Lactogenic hormones; Orexigenic peptides

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OREXIN; PROLACTIN;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS GRAFT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LACTATION; MELANINS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY HORMONES; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

GARCIA;

EID: 0042710732     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-0933com     Document Type: Article

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