Effects of fluoxetine administration on hypothalamic melanocortin system in obese Zucker rats

Neuropeptides

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 293-299

  Churruca, I ^a   Portillo, M P ^a   Casis, L ^a   Gutierrez A ^a   Macarulla, M T ^a   Echevarria E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluoxetine; Food intake; MC4 R; Melanocortins; Obese Zucker rat

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; FLUOXETINE; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; ZUCKER RAT;

AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; APPETITE DEPRESSANTS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA PRIMERS; EATING; FLUOXETINE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OBESITY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

AGOUTI; RATTUS;

EID: 44649184985     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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