Peripheral ghrelin treatment stabilizes body weights of senescent male Brown Norway rats at baseline and after surgery

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Yukawa, Michi ^a   Weigle, David S ^a   Davis, Charles D ^a   Marck, Brett T ^a   Wolden Hanson, Tami ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia of aging; Cytokine; Energy balance; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GHRELIN; HORMONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BROWN NORWAY RAT; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SURGERY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOKINES; EATING; GHRELIN; HORMONES; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 45549104950     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00035.2008     Document Type: Article

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