Endogenous ACTH, not only α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, reduces food intake mediated by hypothalamic mechanisms

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Schulz, Carla ^a   Paulus, Kerstin ^a   Lobmann, Ralf ^b   Dallman, Mary ^c   Lehnert, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Stuttgart General Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Appetite; Hypothalamus; Melanocortin 4 receptor; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HUNGER; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SATIETY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; EATING; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; SATIETY RESPONSE;

EID: 74949088518     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00408.2009     Document Type: Article

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