Central leptin signalling: Beyond the arcuate nucleus

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 8-14

  Jovanovic, Zorica ^a   Yeo, Giles S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food intake; Hypothalamus; Leptin; Obesity; Reward; Signalling; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLECYSTOKININ; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3;

ADIPOCYTE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIPID DIET; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SATIETY; STARVATION; STOMACH DISTENSION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EATING; HUMANS; LEPTIN; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77955236781     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.05.008     Document Type: Review

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