Normal distribution of body weight gain in male Sprague-Dawley rats fed a high-energy diet

Obesity Research

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1376-1383

  Archer, Zoe A ^a   Rayner, D Vernon ^a   Rozman, Jan ^b   Klingenspor, Martin ^b   Mercer, Julian G ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physiology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Diet induced obesity; Energy balance; Neuropeptides

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA;

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; INSULIN; ION CHANNEL; LEPTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; LEPTIN; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 1542440921     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2003.186     Document Type: Article

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