Orexin: A link between energy homeostasis and adaptive behaviour

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-360

  Sakurai, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appetite; Arousal; Lateral hypothalamus; Metabolism; Narcolepsy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DYNORPHIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GALANIN; GHRELIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEPTIN; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOAMINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; OREXIN 1 RECEPTOR; OREXIN 2 RECEPTOR; OREXIN A; OREXIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALERTNESS; APPETITE; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY BALANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; METABOLIC RATE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; REVIEW; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NARCOLEPSY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1042263152     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075197-200307000-00001     Document Type: Review

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