The effects of electrical stimulation or an electrolytic lesion in the mediodorsal thalamus of the rat on survival, body weight, food intake and running activity in the activity-based anorexia model

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 116-122

  Luyten, Laura ^a   Welkenhuysen, Marleen ^a   van Kuyck, Kris ^a   Fieuws, Steffen ^b   Das, John ^a   Sciot, Raf ^c   Nuttin, Bart ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Biostatistical Centre   (Belgium)

^c Laboratory of Morphology and Molecular Pathology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Activity based anorexia; Anorexia nervosa; Electrical stimulation; Electrolytic lesion; Mediodorsal thalamus; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS;

EID: 62649115926     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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