α-Melanocyte stimulating hormone prevents fasting-induced suppression of corticotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-156

  Fekete, Csaba ^a,b   Légrádi, Gábor ^a   Mihály, Emese ^a   Tatro, Jeffrey B ^a,c   Rand, William M ^c   Lechan, Ronald M ^a,c  

^a Tupper Research Institute   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanocyte stimulating hormone; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Fasting; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; Leptin; Melanocortin receptors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0343603539     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01256-8     Document Type: Article

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