Central administration of leucine, but not isoleucine and valine, stimulates feeding behavior in neonatal chicks

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 166-168

  Izumi, Tomofumi ^a   Kawamura, Kazuya ^a   Ueda, Hiroshi ^a   Bungo, Takashi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Chick; Feeding behavior; Isoleucine; Leucine; Valine; Ketoisocaproic acid

Indexed keywords

2 OXOISOCAPROIC ACID; ALPHA-KETOISOCAPROIC ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; DRUG METABOLITE; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; OXOACID; VALINE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPERPHAGIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; METABOLISM; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RHYTHM; STIMULATION;

EID: 0346157308     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.071     Document Type: Article

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