Ghrelin Increases the Rewarding Value of High-Fat Diet in an Orexin-Dependent Manner

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 880-886

  Perello, Mario ^a   Sakata, Ichiro ^a   Birnbaum, Shari ^b   Chuang, Jen Chieh ^a   Osborne Lawrence, Sherri ^a   Rovinsky, Sherry A ^a   Woloszyn, Jakub ^a   Yanagisawa, Masashi ^a   Lutter, Michael ^b   Zigman, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Food intake; food reward; ghrelin; orexin

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; OREXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPHAGIA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIPID DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BENZOXAZOLES; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIETARY FATS; FOOD PREFERENCES; GHRELIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UREA;

EID: 77950371376     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.10.030     Document Type: Article

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