Opioid receptor blockade promotes weight loss and improves the display of sexual behaviors in obese Zucker female rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 515-520

  Marín Bivens, Carrie Lynn ^a   Olster, Deborah H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Food intake; Naltrexone; Obesity; Opioid; Proceptivity; Receptivity; Sexual behaviors; Zucker rats

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OBESITY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STEROIDS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 18844476684     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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