Melanocortin 4 receptor-mediated hyperphagia and activation of neuropeptide Y expression in the dorsomedial hypothalamus during lactation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5091-5100

  Chen, Peilin ^a,b   Williams, Sarah M ^a   Grove, Kevin L ^a   Smith, M Susan ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsomedial hypothalamus; Food intake; Lactation; MC4R; NPY; UCP1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PHOSPHORUS 32; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; CARRIER PROTEINS; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; ISOENZYMES; LACTATION; LEPTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 2642576000     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0588-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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