Leptin Acts via Leptin Receptor-Expressing Lateral Hypothalamic Neurons to Modulate the Mesolimbic Dopamine System and Suppress Feeding

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-98

  Leinninger, Gina M ^a   Jo, Young Hwan ^c   Leshan, Rebecca L ^a   Louis, Gwendolyn W ^a   Yang, Hongyan ^b   Barrera, Jason G ^d   Wilson, Hilary ^d   Opland, Darren M ^a   Faouzi, Miro A ^a   Gong, Yusong ^a   Jones, Justin C ^a   Rhodes, Christopher J ^e   Chua Jr , Streamson ^c   Diano, Sabrina ^f   Horvath, Tamas L ^f   Seeley, Randy J ^b   Becker, Jill B ^b   Münzberg, Heike ^a   Myers Jr , Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SATIETY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DOPAMINE; EATING; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; LEPTIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67849092898     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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