Gamma-protocadherins regulate the functional integrity of hypothalamic feeding circuitry in mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 339, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-50

  Su, Hong ^a   Marcheva, Biliana ^b   Meng, Shuxia ^a   Liang, Fengxia A ^c   Kohsaka, Akira ^b   Kobayashi, Yumiko ^b   Xu, Allison W ^d   Bass, Joseph ^b   Wang, Xiaozhong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Hypothalamus; Neuron; Protocadherin; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; GAMMA PROTOCADHERIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77649181023     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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