Nicotine withdrawal increases body weight, neuropeptide Y and Agouti-related protein expression in the hypothalamus and decreases uncoupling protein-3 expression in the brown adipose tissue in high-fat fed mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 72-76

  Fornari, Alice ^a   Pedrazzi, Patrizia ^a   Lippi, Giordano ^a   Picciotto, Marina R ^b   Zoli, Michele ^a   Zini, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Agouti related protein; Appetite; Feeding; Neuropeptide Y; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; NICOTINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY FATS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 33751014042     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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