Neonatal immune challenge does not affect body weight regulation in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Spencer, Sarah J ^a,b   Mouihate, Abdeslam ^a   Galic, Michael A ^a   Ellis, Shaun L ^a   Pittman, Quentin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender; Leptin; Lipopolysaccharide; Obesity

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOREXIA; BODY WEIGHT; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); FASTING; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LEPTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SATIATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 34547642126     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00262.2007     Document Type: Article

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