Differential response of TRHergic neurons of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in female animals submitted to food-restriction or dehydration-induced anorexia and cold exposure

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 366-377

  Jaimes Hoy, Lorraine ^a,b   Joseph Bravo, Patricia ^c   de Gortari, Patricia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO MÉDICO NACIONAL 20 DE NOVIEMBRE   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Hypothalamic pituitary thyroid axis; Leptin; Thyroid hormones; TRH

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTIRELIN; THYROID HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; APPETITE REGULATION; BODY COMPOSITION; COLD; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; STRESS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 38749151881     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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