Oxytocin receptor-deficient mice developed late-onset obesity

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 951-955

  Takayanagi, Yuki ^a,b   Kasahara, Yoshiyuki ^b   Onaka, Tatsushi ^a   Takahashi, Nobuyuki ^c   Kawada, Teruo ^c   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Cold exposure; Knockoutmouse; Obesity; Oxytocin receptor; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD INTAKE; HOMEOSTASIS AND REGULATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE; AGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; EATING; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE MUTANT; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

ADIPOCYTES, BROWN; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL; EATING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 52249101428     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283021ca9     Document Type: Article

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