The baromodulatory effect of gamma knife irradiation of the hypothalamus in the obese Zucker rat

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-11

  Vincent, David A ^a   Alden, Tord D ^a,c   Kamiryo, Toshifumi ^a   Lopez, Beatrice ^b   Ellegala, Dilantha ^a   Laurent, Jeffrey J ^a   Butler, Michael ^d   Vance, Mary Lee ^a,b   Laws Jr , Edward R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Hypothalamus; Irradiation; Obesity

Indexed keywords

COBALT; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NECROSIS; OBESITY; PROTOPORPHYRINS; RADIOSURGERY; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER;

EID: 20844459499     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083862     Document Type: Article

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